Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not the design that was used at TMI , and the National Nuclear Corporation ( NNC ) has the benefit of the considerable experience of Bechtel and Westinghouse in the design and analysis work that the latter had to carry out to meet the NRC 's ‘ post-TMI ’ requirements . |
| 2 | Striding away from the house , Carolyn stubbed her toe badly on a brick end and had to sit down to nurse it . |
| 3 | The doctor sounded her chest , asking questions about the pain , and all the time trying to keep a sober , professional look though his hands were trembling and in the end he had to sit down to conceal his excitement . |
| 4 | He had to borrow heavily to finance it all — borrowings went up from around £120million to £225million — but he was cautious enough to keep the amount he owed within the limits of his assets and income . |
| 5 | For the French , who had to go inland to trade in furs at all , pushing on to the west was a matter of development by easy stages . |
| 6 | Suddenly , one of the organisers called my number , I had to take off my socks and shoes as you had to do the jump in bare feet and I had to go over to get weighed again on different scales to make sure I was using the correct cord ( they were very safety conscious about every aspect of the jump ) . |
| 7 | Jaswinder Kaur , a Sikh girl from such a family , described , in Oppression of South Asian Women Vol I , 1977 , what she had to go through to get to college : |
| 8 | I had to go upstairs to tell the woman above that I was using the bathroom , because if she walked about above , the plaster fell off . |
| 9 | And sometimes he had to go upstairs to fetch some of his own money to put to it to pay them out . |
| 10 | This meant that , once the prosecution had established the use of force , it had to go on to prove that the victim had ‘ resisted to the utmost from the inception to the close of the attack . ’ |
| 11 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 12 | Then the building specifications had to go out to tender . |
| 13 | In the end , I had to go out to milk my goats . |
| 14 | It was not about special food for diabetics , but that there was no food to give them and family members had to go out to get something because there was nothing available and these were insulin-dependant diabetics . |
| 15 | You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded . |
| 16 | He said he had to go back to work tomorrow . |
| 17 | I had to pretend not to notice . |
| 18 | We 'd borrowed the car from Biland 's mechanic and had to promise not to let Simon drive it . |
| 19 | Sometimes owners had to promise not to issue new shares for two more years . |
| 20 | Magwitch had become very excited , and had to breathe deeply to calm himself . |
| 21 | Men had to discover where to go and what to do once they got there . |
| 22 | She was totally independent , being able to cook , wash , look after herself and her home , drive and walk where she needed to go , even though she could not use her left arm at all , and she had to work constantly to control the spasticity in the left side of her body . |
| 23 | Despite a strong turnout of punters from Ireland , even the pubs say they had to work harder to take money . |
| 24 | She had to try not to become confused by what Marc was suggesting — that he would n't stand in Peter 's way if she herself was co-operative . |
| 25 | er the audience contact when you were actually stood up in the front and you 're there on your own just getting a little bit of feedback from the audience itself er does help and then the playback which erm I think it helped a lot to see how you faired particularly on that fir first attempt what areas you had to concentrate on to rectify your problems . |
| 26 | Corals offered him at 5-1 but soon had to come down to join Ladbrokes at 4-1 . |
| 27 | as if that were an omen , the race itself went just as badly and after nine laps Jackie had to come in to change a deflating tyre . |
| 28 | Yes oh yes another about another six years probably but we had to come back to educate the kids . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 30 | The roof was about six foot high , which meant he had to stoop slightly to accommodate his extra two inches of height as he moved along . |