Example sentences of "had to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 well I went down to the park had to a act , went on again !
2 He walked quickly down the road and then it was something about him not being late cos he had to a contract .
3 I had to a man with the stick earlier .
4 Nothing much could happen to her on a sunny September afternoon between here and the launderette , and Mrs Barakhda who ran it was a friend of hers , or the nearest Lili had to a friend .
5 Yeah , well , thank you Chairman , I I I 'm erm er , I must admit , I 'm I I am think long and and and er think deep really , about er , you know , changes such as this , but I I also er , er have to run my own businesses , and er , I just er , I think we have experienced a water-shed , it 's coincided to some extent with the change of administration and then during the nineteen eighties , we had to a boom in this county , we had the the opportunity and I never er ever er , been against that principle , of er , of er , using our actual receipts we have hidden reserves , we we talked about the reserves of twenty nine million pounds here , for the er , erm , we have er er , assets of twenty nine million , in an earlier paper .
6 mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes .
7 All in all , he was the closest thing the OUP had to a DUP man .
8 A former royal palace , burnt down in the eighteenth century , it was a place with historic connections but was also impressive : it was the nearest Bucharest had to a hill .
9 In the absence of a university college it was the nearest the Gold Coast had to an institution of higher education .
10 They bowed to each other like Thérèse had to the Virgin .
11 Such an Order may be used where it appears to the authority to be expedient in the interests of proper planning of their area , including the interests of amenity , regard being had to the development plan and to any other material considerations .
12 For to revile this troublesome boy at this moment was to damage whatever claim Ramsey had to the stake for which the bold wretch had made so perilous a bid .
13 Then you had to flitt them every day when the wool started to get loose on them you had to the tether would get in a and you had to clear their tethers .
14 But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face .
15 Yeah , but they might pass onto what they had to the child .
16 That Mrs Aggie no longer went ragging in The Courts , but , instead , encouraged the children to bring what rags they had to the yard , there to receive their candy rock , and also the women to come on a Sunday morning to the barn and buy what they wanted , she knew was very wise .
17 He wrote two books : The Living Brain ( 1953 ) , which was popular science and was the first introduction that many people had to the brain , and a novel , Further Outlook ( 1956 ) , which was not very successful .
18 For example , many parts of the country , the South West , to some extent this area , are now finding that the benefits that they had to the rates system of people moving in after retirement after ten , fifteen , twenty years before disadvantages erm people need special hospital treatment , people need special types of accommodation and erm these are not the things that will be provided , as one of my speakers talking about hospital services said , by the private sector .
19 Finally , every provision of Community law must be placed in its context and interpreted in the light of the provisions of Community law as a whole , regard being had to the objectives thereof and to its state of evolution at the date on which the provision in question is to be applied . ’
20 For example , the stress many Tories came to place on the sovereignty of the law under Queen Anne is easy to comprehend given what we discovered earlier about the profound attachment many Tory Anglicans had to the rule of law even prior to the Glorious Revolution .
21 Perhaps that would explain it , why he 'd lost his composure with Antonini , why he 'd reacted as he had to the woman .
22 Brief introductions were made and Porter explained about their last cell-mate , just as he had to the prison delegation .
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