Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening ceremony , set for last May , was cancelled , and local activists had to remain on the original walls while gazing up in wonder at the spectacular treat they were being denied . |
| 2 | Hence the weedkiller train could not be put into the loop and had to remain on the main line , being put right up to the buffer stop because a passenger train was due . |
| 3 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 4 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 5 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 6 | As an air-raid had just begun they could not leave and had to remain in an ambience where , as they now acutely realised , they were not wanted and did not belong . |
| 7 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 8 | It was during the filming of the opening titles for the last ‘ Marti ’ series for the B.B.C. Dressed in a red chiffon evening gown , high heels and lead-weighted knickers , I had to sit on a rock at the bottom of a tank full of sharks , smiling and brushing my hair , while Duncan swam past with a plywood plaice bearing the immortal words ‘ End of Part One ’ ( it could have been the end of several parts ! ) . |
| 9 | Had to sit on a — Oh , ’ Fergus said , suddenly realising ‘ You mean the old wacky baccy . ’ |
| 10 | I took a turn on a rope slide and had to sit on a tractor tyre on the way down . |
| 11 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 12 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 13 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 14 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 15 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 16 | Like most Chinese children unfortunate enough to grow up in the Sixties , Zeng 's education was severely disrupted by the Cultural Revolution , and he had to sit through the shouting matches and brain-washing sessions just as everyone else did . |
| 17 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 18 | Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen . |
| 19 | To make matters worse it was generally believed that the spirit of the child would remain in the body of the mother , and so for three days after the actual birth the mother had to sit by a wood and bamboo fire and sweat out the child 's spirit so that the child should be completed and the mother freed from what was now an alien spirit inside her . |
| 20 | Apparently they all had to sit in a circle and put their hands on the playing board . |
| 21 | Gedanken had to sit in a seat opposite Chris Parker . |
| 22 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 23 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 24 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 25 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 26 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 27 | I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends . |
| 28 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 29 | Competitors had to drive around the country 's top racing circuits within the five-day time period . |
| 30 | The Easter Rising in Dublin and the government 's abortive plan to rush through a Home Rule settlement caused an even greater furore ; this time Bonar Law had to agree to a meeting of the Central Council , but only alter the cabinet had dropped the Home Rule idea , and with a stipulation in advance that questions would be allowed but not resolutions . |