Example sentences of "had [to-vb] a [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | He had to carry a clothes prop to feel where the ditches where . |
| 6 | Modern mass-produced media such as cassettes or compact discs could never be marketed if each one had to carry a stamp . |
| 7 | And if one had to put oneself in a vulnerable situation , like rugging or grooming him , the handler had to carry a cane . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Everyone had to carry a gas-mask at all times , and an air-raid practice was held on that first afternoon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had to support a sister and her children — the only relatives we know of — and his whole career was blighted by impecuniosity . |
| 14 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 15 | Yeah oh yeah I did n't work anywhere else in Willenhall at all , and erm but we 'd got to be in for seven o'clock and if erm you were n't in for seven o'clock and sometimes I used to hear the bell began ringing when I got to go around the corner and get into the , but you had to wait a quarter of an hour before they would let you in and that was stopped off your money and my wage was eight and fourpence a week . |
| 16 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
| 17 | Residents had to wait a year before they could put in claims and it 's only now that they 're getting their offers through , based on the district valuer 's assessment of the value of their homes . |
| 18 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 19 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 20 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 21 | A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home . |
| 22 | Those who were paid had to wait an average of eight weeks for payment . |
| 23 | I HAD to report a theft the other day . |
| 24 | However , even in this basic assumption , all had to acknowledge a problem : not all crime is committed by such people ; a proportion has to be attributed to ‘ ordinary ’ people acting on a casual or occasional basis , or in response to extraordinary circumstances . |
| 25 | Though occasionally , like now , Betty 's family commitments — she had a husband and a three-year-old son — meant that she had to cancel a date . |
| 26 | He had to cancel a meeting at Camp David , complaining of a stubborn cold and hoarse throat . |
| 27 | Today it had to cancel a matinee performance through lack of interest . |
| 28 | I even had to cancel a team match on the Sunday , but I thought it would be well worth it with so much at stake . |
| 29 | He had to attend a meeting of senior officers , but he 's looking forward to meeting you . |
| 30 | Following from Richard and Jenny erm , they both had to attend a meeting in Dublin but it 's with absolutely no other alternative . |