Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doris and the editor auditioned dancers who had to perform physical exercises along with acrobatic dancing . |
| 2 | The change involved the production of a protective ‘ skin ’ to ensure that water loss to the atmosphere was not excessive , and the stems had to acquire sufficient rigidity to stand up without the support of surrounding water , but also the cellular structure had to allow the passage of nutrients to the growing shoots ( ultimately , a vascular system ) . |
| 3 | I had to carry hot water for washing to every room . ’ |
| 4 | Transport was scarce and we had to carry special identity cards when we moved from our own villages . |
| 5 | In the 1820s the vestry at Christchurch , Spitalfields , had to issue general instructions against the use of the single case in their vaults , advocating the triple case in all instances . |
| 6 | That was the authority that caused so much scandal as a result of the compulsory competitive tendering legislation with such iniquitous dealings in the management buy-outs of the school meals service that the Audit Commission had to issue special guidelines for all future cases . |
| 7 | Alisa Morrant realised that she had to target new mothers — it would be too late by the time the children attended the dentist for fillings . |
| 8 | Editors still had to submit their material for inspection ( after it had been printed , but before it was distributed ) ; they could be penalized both by indictment in the courts and by direct action on the part of the Minister of Internal Affairs ; and they had to lodge monetary bonds with the authorities to facilitate the payment of fines if the government moved against them . |
| 9 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 10 | Specifically , for the verbal task , subjects had to report 3-letter nonsense syllables presented in either the left or right hemifield and , for the spatial task , they had to locate the position of a dot in a rectangle exposed within one or other visual field . |
| 11 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 12 | One consequence was that Pitt had to float special government loans at high discounts , because he could not secure a sufficient sum from the " market " . |
| 13 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 14 | Prince Eugene of Savoy , until his death in 1736 the most famous commander in Europe , had to wear civilian dress when he appeared at the Habsburg court . |
| 15 | Men had to wear rough cotton shirts and white corduroy jackets and trousers , to be easily visible . |
| 16 | Until then , drivers had to wear protective capes . |
| 17 | Although at first , women had to wear white dustcoats and men 's hats , new uniforms were eventually provided which suited the female figure . |
| 18 | Gone are the days when you had to wear cosmetic colours that matched your brows or hair . |
| 19 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 20 | Leach , on one occasion had to go full length to save , and also the keeper at the other end too was kept very busy . |
| 21 | erm Right on the last few minutes with five minutes to go erm the erm Steven was again through and Leach had to go full length to save . |
| 22 | However , I had to promise certain things : |
| 23 | Even this better-than-expected showing , however , does n't do that much for Sun 's margins because it had to promise free MP upgrades . |
| 24 | Each of these users had to meet certain criteria . |
| 25 | It had to meet huge mortgage indemnity insurance claims from lenders of repossessed homes now worth less than was lent on them . |
| 26 | However , the government demanded a five-year grace period before paying into the UN-supervised compensation fund for Kuwaiti victims of Iraq 's occupation and the ensuing war , on the grounds that it had to meet domestic needs first , including the US$194,000 million cost of reconstruction . |
| 27 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 28 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 29 | Formal labour markets in capitalist economies have never been able to provide paid employment for everyone who needed it , and short of allowing wage-labourers and their families of future wage-labourers to starve , either individual capitalists or the state on their behalf had to provide alternative means of support . |
| 30 | When drift mines were first sunk in this valley during the 1850s the workforce walked in each day from the surrounding villages and hamlets , but from the 1860s onwards the coalmasters had to provide new accommodation ; Pease and Partners , for example , had built 151 houses at Waterhouses by 1874 . |