Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing . |
| 2 | Hogg explained : ‘ We had to perform a balancing act . |
| 3 | The company collapsed , the ITA had to re-advertise the contract in July 1955 , and the ABPC film company , one-third owned by the American Warner Brothers , was persuaded firmly to accept it the very day before ITV started in London . |
| 4 | Because the sets were completely different , the Theatre Royal having a much taller stage , White had to restage the movements during the two-week break . |
| 5 | It is not always easy to balance challenges and skills even when working with a single child on a relatively straightforward task ; for these class teachers working with mixed ability groups in settings where the normal practice was for several different tasks in different curriculum areas to be undertaken simultaneously , an adequate balance between challenges and skills throughout the group had to remain an aspiration rather than an achievement . |
| 6 | Despite any explanations he might offer her , he had to remain the enemy . |
| 7 | This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses . |
| 8 | ‘ Before I got on the plane , I had to treat a woman on the island of St Thomas , when she fell from a balcony , fracturing her skull . |
| 9 | He had to carry a clothes prop to feel where the ditches where . |
| 10 | Modern mass-produced media such as cassettes or compact discs could never be marketed if each one had to carry a stamp . |
| 11 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 12 | Also , when presented with questions like ‘ What eats less , a horse or a bunny ? ’ , or a practical situation like ‘ Pretend you had to carry a bucket full of dirt and it was really heavy . |
| 13 | They had to carry a table out with them , which was set up the required ten metres from the shed wall , and the pistols were laid out , and the targets pinned up . |
| 14 | Everyone had to carry a gas-mask at all times , and an air-raid practice was held on that first afternoon . |
| 15 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 16 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 17 | It was n't their fault , usually , that the firm was doing badly , but they had to carry the can . |
| 18 | Chapman continued with his industrial work , but he had to carry the stigma of the commission 's verdict . |
| 19 | Like when I had to carry the garbage out — because of my bad back , the girls helped me with my duty and it was all right with the counsellors because of my back — it was n't special treatment . |
| 20 | The engine room , the Cabinet-committee structure , may have seriously under-performed in the six-month build-up to the Argentine invasion of the Falklands , but its command post , the full Cabinet , according to one senior minister not of the Thatcherite persuasion , performed its classic function once the crisis had broken : ‘ She had to carry the Cabinet on every major decision ’ , he said . |
| 21 | I mean th th th th they were on the way to military security , but were they going , they , they , they recognized they had to carry the population with them . |
| 22 | He had explained to Milton and Pooley that he had to carry the body of members with him . |
| 23 | Grand Met maintains it had to issue the leases after a Monopolies and Mergers Commission report which said the six big brewers could not own more than 2,000 pubs . |
| 24 | They could forgive this young man , just as we had to forgive the man who failed to secure his trailer , or they could allow bitterness to completely neutralise everything God was doing in their lives . |
| 25 | Dustin had to drive a convertible in the pouring rain on a sunny day , rain being supplied by a water-spray truck driving along behind . |
| 26 | We then had to drive the machine back and unload the rented van . |
| 27 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 28 | Stephen tied it up but the string broke and he had to drive the car into Hilderbridge very slowly and carefully so as not to overheat the engine . |
| 29 | Crawford had to drive the car into the pool , unlock his seat belt , put the gear into neutral , work four pedals that released oxygen tanks — to slow down the sinking-speak twelve lines of dialogue as the water bubbled up around his chin , somersault underwater so that , after total submersion , his kicking legs appeared first , then escape . |
| 30 | Some indications of future policy moves , however , were to be seen in the increasingly tight controls on capital spending including the introduction of Housing Investment Plans ( HIPs ) which meant that individual councils had to agree the pattern of their housing capital spending with the Department of the Environment . |