Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 And er I had to fall back very often just write , I saw Mr follow the horse in in in that that churning power .
2 In a recent wardship case decided under the old law , Re H ( Minors ) ( Wardship : Sexual Abuse ) [ 1991 ] FLR 416 the Court of Appeal had to carry out just such a balancing exercise when deciding whether to make an interim care order in respect of four children alleged to be at risk of sexual abuse .
3 You had to sit up straight and there was barely room for your knees .
4 The sudden question threw her off balance , literally , and she had to sit back hastily in the chair at Faye 's bedside to regain her physical and mental equilibrium .
5 I had to sit down again .
6 So I got up , but I was that s weak I had to sit down again and er the n the nurse that come in she said , You stop there till doctor comes .
7 Had to sit down again .
8 She was not gross in any disgusting way , though she had to sit down carefully , for it was a tight fit for her to squeeze into the chair with its wooden arms .
9 I had to sit down twice because of the roast beef and everything , which had gone straight to my legs .
10 Hampstead , erm , round Hampstead , round Highgate , had to drive up there , it 's so nice .
11 I had to agree so here is Batts ' agony column back again for the benefit of the LUFC mailing list .
12 Part of the reason why the shareholders had to wait so long for a return was that the original capital had been only 10,000 guineas , and the Company financed itself by fairly short-term loans from the merchants with which it did business , so the shareholders stood at the end of a long line of creditors but could expect substantial returns on their money in the end if the Company survived .
13 I mean , I do n't expect my Dad had to wait as long for his tea .
14 In the mid-to-late 1970s , while building her business , she had to cope not only with prejudice against headhunting , but with prejudice against her as a woman .
15 Later , in 1908 , they had to plan once again how to combine their joint ideal of a free domestic relationship with the solitude that Edward 's nature demanded as a price to be paid for his self-discovery as a writer .
16 There were , however , two very good reasons why the operation had to go ahead regardless .
17 Cos if you g if anybody go down there now they could see where what we call the Pier Head , so ships had to go up there and turn in to the lock gate .
18 They would go mid-week when he had to go up there for Joskiss 's ; they need not be vulgar weekend lovers .
19 Had to go round again .
20 Er and we were getting the impression then we were only , not wanting to decry them Bettaware salesmen or Bettaware people , you had to go round now and stick catalogues through people 's doors and go back and
21 He went forward , taking hold of Leith 's arm so that , there being nothing other she could do if she wanted to keep her dignity , she had to go forward too .
22 Everything had to go on as normal .
23 And then we had to go straight away there and we went different places , Northampton , s you know different places in the country like , in England .
24 The Chinese never felt that they had to go anywhere much beyond their own frontiers to acquire knowledge or to find riches ; to the extent that they did go abroad , it was to the west , by land or by hugging the coast .
25 It was n't a very full list cos erm er it did n't occur to me until about seven o'clock this evening that I had to go out quite soon and then I just ran around frantically doing things .
26 I did n't sign on or claim money or nothing , so I had to go out there and steal to get money in my pocket and clothes on my back .
27 He says , he says I went , he says I had to go out there stuck in me bloody army stuff .
28 well I would n't be absolutely if , if I had to go out then I 'd have to go out .
29 As human populations increased villagers had to go further afield in search of food .
30 I had to go down there for the preview and then go down and bid .
  Next page