Example sentences of "had [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to sit in silence for twenty minutes with him and the weird Indian music . |
| 2 | The coalition had to agree in principle to the report , announcing its determination to implement the report 's assumption that mass unemployment must be prevented . |
| 3 | Tran , who was the party 's most outspoken advocate of the notion that political and economic reforms had to proceed in tandem if either was to succeed , was expelled for " grave violations of organization , principles and discipline of the party " . |
| 4 | Doctors told her she needed an emergency hysterectomy , but because of a bed shortage she had to wait in agony for three-and-a-half hours . |
| 5 | So I had to wait in suspense . |
| 6 | The education and training of Health Care workers should include at least the possibility of working in partnership with people rather than for people , so that the experience of unlearning , deroling and relearning through which the family development nurses had to go in order to work effectively in this way with people , can be avoided . |
| 7 | Oh goodness , yes for the damage and you had to go in front of the Harbourmaster . |
| 8 | And after that he was er T B and he had to go in hospital . |
| 9 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 10 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 11 | Although all my aids had to work in unison , I had to really concentrate on being able to work them independently of each other . |
| 12 | Newspapers had to bear in mind restrictions the Monopolies Commission could impose ( though this proved a feeble weapon , as Murdoch 's accumulation of titles showed ) . |
| 13 | In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . |
| 14 | One school , deciding that extra space for resource-based learning was a priority , took over a classroom for use in unstructured individualized work , with the result that other classrooms including some specialist rooms were more heavily used than before ; teachers complained that they could not get in to put up work on the blackboard beforehand , and were introduced to the more thorough use of the overhead projector ; the timetabler had to bear in mind the needs of some practical subjects where the previous laying-out of equipment was vital , but the exercise was valuable in focusing attention on such priorities and making them clear to everyone . |
| 15 | In making his decisions about gifts or patronage , a king had to bear in mind that his nobles too had clients , and obligations of their own . |
| 16 | So I naturally had to bear in mind the possibility that the jewel had not been stolen at all by any outside party , but ‘ caused to disappear ’ , let us say , by the Strattons themselves . |
| 17 | A recent police swoop in and around Durban brought 45 arrests and 15 had to appear in court for failing to dismantle their homes according to the deadline . |
| 18 | But blacklisted television writers , who had to appear in person at the studios , had to ask a ‘ clean ’ writer ( or even a non-writer ) to ‘ front ’ for them . |
| 19 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |
| 20 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 21 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 22 | All appointees have to provide a urine sample — even Pamela Harriman , the new ambassador to Paris , had to stand in line , clutching her paper cup — and turn up for a face-to-face interview , which usually lasts between one-and-a-half and two hours . |
| 23 | I had to stand in front of the whole school which gave me ample opportunity to observe the envy on some girls ' faces because knitting for the troops was a popular pastime then . |
| 24 | We started off by using the T-bars which were very awkward because you had to stand in front of a small bar , you could n't sit down or lean forward . |
| 25 | The public is less familiar with the consequences for prison management of the battles in which those former prisoners had to engage in order to establish their innocence . |
| 26 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 27 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |
| 28 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 29 | In other words , support for the education policies of the church were the quid the Irish party had to give in order to obtain the quo of the bishops ' endorsement of the party as the genuine political representatives of the Irish people or nation . |
| 30 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |