Example sentences of "had [to-vb] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to scratch at Monaco and did not return until Spa , nearly a month later : there , despite a wrist-brace and a lot of pain , Jackie led the whole race until he ran out of fuel , finishing fourth after a pit-stop . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ It was after John Bond had left and we ( Orient ) had to play at Burnley on the last Saturday . |
| 3 | Like Carolyn , she had to look at Bill Kay with new eyes before finding him sexy . |
| 4 | And although I infinitely preferred a walk across the corner of the field to the privy by the duck pond , to the four flights of stairs I had to descend at Reine , with a com-munal Turkish crouch at the end of it , I wondered how Otto would adjust to outside facilities . |
| 5 | One night we had a crash landing , when a plane from another air field had to land at Bourn in a bit of a hurry , having been shot up rather badly on the way back from Germany . |
| 6 | To add to their misery , the flight was delayed when the plane had to land at Belfast because of bad weather . |
| 7 | Wendy went to Glasgow and had a direct trip ; I had to change at Rugby on the way north and at Carstairs coming south . |
| 8 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 9 | Again Maggie had to laugh at Natasha 's exaggerated pronunciation . |
| 10 | In January also he had to speak at Pusey House in Oxford on " The Lambeth Conference and Education " , but one student 's disappointment at his performance on this occasion suggests the strain and lack of preparedness which were forced on him during this period : " In questions Mr Eliot was most feeble and hesitant , humming and hawing much and throwing back the questions with " Is that not what I said ? " or " Does it not prove my point ? " |
| 11 | Two hundred and fifty hours later , after fitting an alarm and the full system over numerous late nights , early mornings and long weekends we drove the finished product out of the garage at 3.00am on Saturday 5 September , yes four hours before we had to register at Wembley . |