Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And sometimes he had to go upstairs to fetch some of his own money to put to it to pay them out . |
| 5 | What a dreadful day that was , and I was on my own because Uncle had to go away to attend to business matters . |
| 6 | You only had to go abroad to see how we were regarded . |
| 7 | Magwitch had become very excited , and had to breathe deeply to calm himself . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Despite a strong turnout of punters from Ireland , even the pubs say they had to work harder to take money . |
| 10 | ‘ I had to come especially to see you this morning , Leith , ’ he said earnestly as he fell into step with her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You placed bets on what card was going to be drawn and you had to guess correctly to get your money back . |
| 13 | The billeting troubles seemed very minor compared to my happiness , but Wendy and I still had to find somewhere to live . |
| 14 | Alexander was too drunk to care and Corbett had to listen carefully to understand the man 's drunken , slurred speech . |
| 15 | He spoke in strong Yorkshire dialect , so Mary had to listen carefully to understand him . |
| 16 | The price of a loaf of bread was several hours labour and both the miller and the domestic baker had to slog away to procuce a loaf . |
| 17 | As long as they conformed outwardly , they were fairly safe , for Elizabeth and her ministers had to tread carefully to repair the breaches of confidence in the Tudor monarchy that Mary 's policies had opened . |
| 18 | He pushed ahead of them , and Peter had to hurry forward to stop the door from swinging shut behind him . |
| 19 | She had to bend close to hear what he said . |
| 20 | In A.D. 52 , the Roman Legate of Syria — the immediate superior of the Governor of Judaea — had to intervene personally to prevent a full-scale insurrection . |
| 21 | In Germany a large working class had to fight simultaneously to achieve or maintain trade union and economic rights , as well as to secure full citizenship and political rights . |
| 22 | They had to run constantly to complete the first tapping of their three hundred and fifty trees in the five hours before ten o'clock . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the infamous cassette tape recording of open outcry on a real trading floor was turned right up to impress clients , so the AEs had to shout loudly to make themselves heard . |
| 24 | The coughing exhausted her and Mrs Hellyer had to lean forward to catch what she said . |
| 25 | Fearnley was by now talking so quietly that I had to lean close to hear him . |
| 26 | Fenella , who understood in a vague way about mill wheels and how they had to rotate continually to provide power , saw with horror that the slaves inside the steel mesh cages were forced by the motion of the wheels to tread endlessly forward to keep the treadmills revolving . |
| 27 | We , all of us had er a bed-sitting room of our own which we kept on between cases cos we had to have somewhere to live and erm and then of course we , we 'd come back there and make up for lost time really . |
| 28 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 29 | I had to stay behind to cook supper for the others . ’ |
| 30 | The rest of the family went to India for a year , but I had to stay behind to do A levels and university entrance . |