Example sentences of "had [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His right foot had to remain at right angles to his leg . |
| 2 | When they turned off the main road Uncle George had to drive at little more than walking pace , for he could n't see where the lane ended and the ditches at the sides began , for snow cloaked everything . |
| 3 | I had to wait at most a couple of minutes before Dennis opened the back door , walked across to the garage , unlocked it , swung the door up and stepped inside . |
| 4 | In earlier times and into the twelfth and thirteenth centuries , many of the basic administrative and judicial activities were carried out through the arrangement of hundreds , hundred courts , and hundredal manors courts being held at hundred meeting places , where three men for every tithing or vill had to attend at three-weekly intervals . |
| 5 | We had , we had to get there before six , when they shut , we had to go at half past five , . |
| 6 | He added that imports had to continue at competitive levels to safeguard jobs in the processing industry . |
| 7 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 8 | The steps led downwards , there were crumbling stone walls , so that they had to clutch at narrow ropes sunk into the wall at intervals . |
| 9 | T. D. After being on morning duty [ 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. ] , we had to parade at 2.20 p.m. at Sefton Park . |
| 10 | ( This was a situation we had to avoid at all costs . |
| 11 | A case in point was a series of devastating strikes that Finniston had to weather at British Steel in 1974 . |
| 12 | And that , I I was , my hus , during the time mother was ill , my husband took ill , now this is where authorities do n't give you any back up , instead of sending him to hospital which was fifteen minutes by bus , I could have visited him every day they sent him to the other side of the county which only allowed a visit once a week , and meant I had to leave at twelve o'clock and get home at six ! |
| 13 | They had drunk pots of strong black coffee and he had to leave at 8 . |
| 14 | I used to do that when I was working and I had to leave at half four , used to do our kids , see when that clock gets to nine waken me I 'm fucking cold out our Ashley said mummy it 's after nine |
| 15 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 16 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 17 | To keep clear of British radar and stay undetected , the bombers had to fly at low level and so never attained the necessary height . |
| 18 | But sometimes he had to laugh at this , for if anything she seemed stronger than ever and it was beginning to look as if she might outlast him . |
| 19 | Although the amount NoS had to raise at this point was small compared with what was to come later , those involved say that in many ways it was harder work . |
| 20 | In the event , we had to return at separate times and as the friend , Mr. Robin Townsend , was to cross first , he took the plastic ticket and we agreed he would arrange to have the ticket divided , and leave my part at your Ostend office . |
| 21 | I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary . |
| 22 | ‘ I was disappointed that the situation had to arise at all , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Mr Foxley who started in the works in 1906 , lived at Shenley and had to arise at four in the morning so as to start work at 5.30 am . |
| 24 | The system was developed by the Reservoir Quality Prediction team at XTP Sunbury in response to the tough target , set by Breakthrough Management , for the first extended-reach well of the programme : it had to produce at 15,000 barrels-a-day . |