Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days the caddies had to carry only half-a-dozen clubs with hickory shafts . |
| 2 | But although there was ample room lengthways for sitters to draw back from the blaze sufficiently for comfort , there was less space broadways-on , so that the pairs had to sit fairly close together — which suited Alexander Ramsay very well , for he shared a bench with Mariot . |
| 3 | We just had to sit there all day on our own , and I was in for a couple of weeks . |
| 4 | Then we had to grind best white sandstone to powder and scour all the top surfaces , including the ceilings . |
| 5 | Circumstances dictated that I had to wait nearly two years ( how did I survive ? ) . |
| 6 | The debate dragged on in his absence and he had to wait nearly three hours for the result . |
| 7 | The female half of the population had to wait even longer for an equal political voice : not until substantial numbers of women had moved out from the shelter of the home to take an independent place in the labour market was women 's claim to a voice in the political market allowed . |
| 8 | The Scottish club , trailing 1–0 after the first leg of this second round tie , had to wait only 13 minutes before levelling the scores . |
| 9 | ( 11 June 1763 ) The family had to wait about two days for the wheel to be fixed ( involving expenditure on housing , and feeding the horses and the driver ) . |
| 10 | Right , yesterday on the way to scho , on the way to the bus we had to wait about five minutes I was slowly going see |
| 11 | I had to wait about ten minutes while he was interviewing someone in connection with a current case , and then I was taken to his room . |
| 12 | When he heard that he had to wait still longer for his dinner , he began to growl and lash his tail and curl his whiskers in a most terrible manner causing the poor farmer 's knees to knock together with terror . |
| 13 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 14 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 15 | I was scarcely conscious but Pat helped me out of the machine and as the dinghy had n't emerged after the ditching we had to swim about 250 yards to the beach . |
| 16 | She had to cope completely alone . |
| 17 | They have kind of you know , in the back , in that little house , , I mean if you buying you know , it 's like , I mean , if I had to go there two weeks in the year , you know what I mean . |
| 18 | I went there , I had to go there this week for work . |
| 19 | I 'll tell you about that in a minute and then er I er had to go about forty times for permission . |
| 20 | Living in those chintz-curtained north London suburbs like Southgate or Palmers Green or Cockfosters , one had to work pretty hard to have a misspent youth . |
| 21 | One of the biggest challenges was the fact that I had to work quite direct , once the colour was put on it was incredibly difficult to lift off completely and so I could afford to make very few mistakes . |
| 22 | Often she had to work so hard to overcome her paralysing shyness that what she had to say burst out in a shout , or in a tone of great fierceness . |
| 23 | Did you ever think it was unfair that you had to work so hard for so little money ? |
| 24 | had to work so hard for it perhaps , you see . |
| 25 | And there was a satisfaction about it although I always think in those days we had to work so fast that there was n't the time to do what you 'd really like to have done for the patients . |
| 26 | I had to work very hard to satisfy him . |
| 27 | And God was very good to me there , I was n't the brightest in the year and I had to work very hard , but God always was with me as I always passed my exams much to my surprise . |
| 28 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 29 | As a result , the Whig MP John Hervey had to work extremely hard to cultivate the corporation , and although he did use various financial incentives , he found that the best way to keep their support was by serving their interests both locally and in Parliament . |
| 30 | Everyone thinks Annunciata was an accident , being so much younger than Clelia , but she was n't , I had to work terribly hard to get Annunciata . |