Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The newcomers were not able to brush aside the native Carib population with quite the contemptuous ease with which the Spaniards had conquered the mainland ; attempts to settle in earlier years had been resisted successfully and in some islands the English settlers had to remain at least as careful about the risk of native attack as any community in North America . |
| 2 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 3 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 4 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 5 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 6 | Mrs Prentice , had to wait until 2.20am before she knew that she would be joining him in the House , ousting Tory Energy Minister Colin Moynihan , in the process . |
| 7 | She only had to wait till tonight , and she would get her answers . |
| 8 | Joan , who is 70 and lives in Formby , filled in her last number at 10.05pm but had to wait till 9am the next day to check if she had won . |
| 9 | They said they said oh there 's no beds left at all , there 's probably about ten and the there was a bed , then I had to wait till about half past three in the afternoon to get into it . |
| 10 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 11 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 12 | Paula had told her there were twelve models in the show and each of them had to wear at least ten outfits . |
| 13 | ‘ It was a hair-raising experience at Ibiza because for the sea swim and the canoe leg we had to contend with very high winds and huge waves . |
| 14 | The players had to contend with unusually cold conditions , including the first snowfall in the area for more than 50 years . |
| 15 | To have a drink on a Sunday , he had to be a ‘ bonna-fide traveller ’ , and had to go at least three or four miles before he would be served . |
| 16 | I had to go over there just to see how dockers worked over there , to see if I could improve it here , well I could n't because dockers would n't do what they , they were doing in Holland . |
| 17 | Alright he knew he had to go to afterwards , half past three , but he could n't unwind one bit there . |
| 18 | You had to hop to it — it was considered to be a privilege from the sergeant and you had to go in here and strip down , and scrub windows and that sort of thing . |
| 19 | I had to go in there immediately . |
| 20 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 21 | Two old sisters in Portsmouth kept shops side by side : the great-aunt running a coal shop where ‘ you had to go in there with your pail , and they weighed the coal ’ , with vegetables as a sideline , while ‘ my gran she had a wee shop and she used to sell toffee apples . ’ |
| 22 | Healey backed Crossman and pointed out that they would be ‘ blind men leading the blind if they had to go in there knowing nothing about the place ’ . |
| 23 | By the loo , I had to go in there |
| 24 | Fourth I had to go from here . |
| 25 | Well , would n't you if you had to work for only one night a year ? |
| 26 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 27 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 28 | Since the amount of nuclear material increases as cells grow and divide , new pyrimidines and purines had to come from somewhere . |
| 29 | The money had to come from somewhere , and while old newspapers might spawn new newspapers there was not , of course , any ‘ old ’ ITV . |
| 30 | Internazionale had to come from behind to draw with Bari , while Sampdoria beat Verona with a goal by GianLuca Vialli ( 16 ) . |