Example sentences of "she had [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The french windows were damp and warped in their frames , and she had to heave with her shoulder against the door to get one open . |
| 2 | But in the end she had to choose for him . |
| 3 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 4 | she knew she would save Billy , even if she had to die for it . |
| 5 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 6 | By the time he had once more straightened , pulling her sweater down around her , kissing her , burying his face in her hair , she had to lean against him in order to remain upright . |
| 7 | Kate was curiously fascinating , but mixed in with the fascination was a sort of fear ; and over the last few months she had made it quite clear that the less she had to do with him , the better she would like it . |
| 8 | Paula was amazed by the security arrangements that were necessary to ensure that the new season 's collections remained exclusive — the windows at the rear of the premises were heavily barred and practically the first thing she had to do on commencing her employment was to sign a contract promising that she would not breathe a word about the designs she saw . |
| 9 | The woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years , and probably suffered from haemophilia , touched the cloak of Jesus believing that this was all she had to do to be healed . |
| 10 | There were other things she had to do in her life , things forces beyond the reach of her mind deemed important . |
| 11 | She could n't eat any of her meal and went off to school where she had to sit alongside Mr Clark 's daughter . |
| 12 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 13 | Now she had to sit in his boat or he would be insulted and she was glad to rest . |
| 14 | As it was , she had to draw on reserves of courage she had n't even known she possessed just to get her through the opening number . |
| 15 | Oh , he was clever , and it hurt unbearably to know that now , of all times , she had to lie to him . |
| 16 | Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover . |
| 17 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 18 | On the surface Caesar appeared to be a supremely selfish individual , but then she had to take into account that having virtue he had no need of goodness . |
| 19 | I think his experience of farming was somewhat limited because of the time he had spent in the Army , and that would not make things easy for Grandma Hauxwell because she had to take on more responsibility around the farm . |
| 20 | When she was first looking for rooms to rent , she had to pretend to be Yoruba rather than Ibo in order to persuade a Nigerian landlord to accept her as a tenant . |
| 21 | Consequently , she had to exist on an average income of £26 per week from an evening waitressing job . |
| 22 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 23 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 24 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 25 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 26 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 27 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 28 | Because of the extensions of the life of that Parliament as a consequence of the war , she had to wait until 1945 to fight an election , which she won with a majority of 665 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ The National Health Service ’ , she had to proclaim in 1982 , ‘ is safe with us ’ . |