Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall . |
| 2 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |
| 3 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 4 | Even in the days of hard communism , parents had to pay a few yuan a term . |
| 5 | There was no water-borne sanitation , and every other day Tidey and I had to empty the few sanitary buckets , burying their contents in holes dug in the garden , as well as trying to keep the houses clean and collecting fruit and vegetables . |
| 6 | So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever . |
| 7 | Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth . |
| 8 | We walked on , but now I had to stop every few yards because people were coming up to me ; friends who wanted to introduce other friends , schoolfriends of John 's , an ex-girlfriend , cousins . |
| 9 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 10 | She had to stop a few yards later , sobbing for breath . |