Example sentences of "had [to-vb] a few " in BNC.

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1 During training Catherine had to acquire a few hair-raising skill such as flying upside down and rescuing the aircraft from a stall .
2 She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws .
3 You had to pee a few times a day to survive .
4 Even in the days of hard communism , parents had to pay a few yuan a term .
5 So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever .
6 Robert merely had to drop a few bon mots from Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi 's handbook into the conversation and Maisie 's eyes widened the way they did when you offered to take her out for a meal or when she was telling you how someone had told someone that she had a beautiful mouth .
7 She had to stop a few yards later , sobbing for breath .
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