Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they had no way of driving out of office the men who ran the executive in their colonies , the colonial assemblies could not assert themselves in the same way as the Westminster Parliament , and had to fall back on using the seventeenth-century approach of saying that there should be redress of grievance before taxes were voted to run the government . |
| 2 | As other departments , such as Visual Effects , joined in the unofficial boycott of Doctor Who ( see Chapter Five ) , Verity Lambert , Mervyn Pinfield and their team had to fall back on ingenuity from their Designers and Directors , plus backing from Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson who both maintained great faith in the prospects of the show . |
| 3 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 4 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 5 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 6 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 7 | For her to love me , I had to carry on with my secret life . |
| 8 | Er , you know , well of course they were young girls and er , you see and there 's , there was nothing we could do , you see , and , and er , anyway the doctor , as soon as the doctor did come , it was because th the young staff er they had to , they took her away to the mortuary , you see and erm then I , I had to carry on with her work and , and do the best I could and mine as well , you see , but of course er the Manager he appointed another Assistant Manager to go and collect the money which I used to do got it in because I took her times of duty as well and er , you see , and then after that er after several weeks I suppose it was , I do n't know how many because I forget how many , that they appointed me as Manageress and I was in that position for twelve years , you see and |
| 9 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 10 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 11 | As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease . |
| 12 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 13 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 14 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 15 | On one occasion , Mr Jones had to sit silently outside her door to make sure that Olwyn did not get out . |
| 16 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 17 | They do , they think people did it to me so I 'm gon na do it to them they just do it as a way of getting back , it 's not is this what people do , they know it 's not right they just do it because they think well we had to sit there for hours on look out so they can too . |
| 18 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 19 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 20 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 21 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 22 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 23 | The shaikh complained that he had to leave in a hurry ; his opposite number had left by plane , and he had to drive urgently to Kufra for it was essential that as many people as possible should turn up , to emphasize the seriousness of the affair . |
| 24 | So I had to drive out past him , pull over to the other side of the road as much as possible to let him come through and the other cars come through , then I could come . |
| 25 | To reach it he had to drive almost into Sandwich , between factories and yards where acres of cars awaited export , and find a small road that wound its way inland . |
| 26 | ‘ If I had to drive back to Tangier now , I 'd do it in one go . |
| 27 | They went back down the garden and after that out to a couple of pubs where they drank a lot and Rufus had to drive back to Wyvis Hall with one eye closed on account of getting double vision . |
| 28 | She 'd have been stuck in some noisy complex in Pollensa and then had to drive back to Palma to do his share of the work . |
| 29 | Wycliffe stayed chatting until after midnight and had to drive back in conditions which were , if anything , worse than they had been earlier . |
| 30 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |