Example sentences of "had [to-vb] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberts ' student days coincided with the depression and to finance his studies he had to work at night and on Saturdays in a bakery store . |
| 2 | In order to arrive off difficult coastlines in daylight we often had to sail at night from the Outer Isles . |
| 3 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |
| 4 | Party officials attributed this to antipathy to the " open ballot " system in which voters had to queue at polling booths behind the poster of their chosen candidate and were publicly counted . |
| 5 | In the economic circumstances of the time , most students had to live at home . |
| 6 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 7 | After being seen whizzing out of the doors of a rink , he had to skate at speed along a footpath of the common , round a spiral pedestrian walkway , on to a road , grab the back of a passing bus , let go , cut across a main road between cars coming in both directions , go across another road — between the wheels of a moving articulated lorry — and end up in a babywear shop , somersaulting into a cot . |
| 8 | Lyn was relegated from norw. premiership this season after the most dramatic relegation battle for years — they had to beat Brann , Bergen away with at least five goals and also Molde had to loose at home to Tromsoe. well Molde lost 1–0 and could have had a penalty . |
| 9 | The fog exacerbated his emphysema : he was short of breath , found it difficult to walk very far , and had to stay at home in seclusion . |
| 10 | I had to stay at home , but Will told me all about it when he came back . |
| 11 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 12 | ‘ Had to stay at home to mind the kids , ’ said Bill promptly . |
| 13 | For I had to stay at home and look after me farm for . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , she … she told me that you were n't well and she had to stay at home . ’ |
| 15 | I just had to stay at home for a bit . |
| 16 | WHILE Terry had to stop at home , brother John soaked up the Spanish sunshine in a luxury holiday home on loan from an old friend . |
| 17 | She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom . |