Example sentences of "she had [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to hold the frame of the door . |
| 2 | The complex included squash courts , an indoor swimming-pool and a gym , and Rachel , who had always loved swimming , took advantage of every opportunity she had to visit the complex . |
| 3 | My mother reckoned she had to invite the Dalgety team to lunch every year because it was the only way she could get me to take a day off . |
| 4 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 5 | Her instincts told her that if she was to survive in the world of industry and commerce she had to push the past to one side , and get on with life . |
| 6 | In Benny 's house , where she was considered a very pampered only child , she had to borrow the kitchen radio and then perch it on a chair because there was n't any socket near enough to her bed to plug it in . |
| 7 | Poor Mrs. Sturgess — she had to clean the school singlehanded , light the stoves , fill the scuttles , and the job was only part-time ! |
| 8 | Now she had to clean the floor as well . |
| 9 | In that time , she had to clean the house , set the fire , heat water for her husband and make his breakfast . |
| 10 | She was afraid to look round again , but the other housemaid was ready to carry soup bowls to the table and she had to do the same . |
| 11 | But she had to do the best she could . |
| 12 | The engine room , the Cabinet-committee structure , may have seriously under-performed in the six-month build-up to the Argentine invasion of the Falklands , but its command post , the full Cabinet , according to one senior minister not of the Thatcherite persuasion , performed its classic function once the crisis had broken : ‘ She had to carry the Cabinet on every major decision ’ , he said . |
| 13 | The scales were dry and silver , and fell like little clouds of snow when she had to scratch the skin because the cream from her doctor would not stop the itching . |
| 14 | She had to take the chance before it was too late . |
| 15 | Celia knew she had to take the threat seriously . |
| 16 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 17 | She had to submit the control of her ambitions , career and money to a group over her who ‘ shepherded ’ her . |
| 18 | Over a stretch of muddy field … she had to bridge the gap — decide . |
| 19 | She just knew she had to see the woman who held Timothy 's heart and perhaps persuade her to set him free . |
| 20 | She was left to bring up a family she had to go the banks for money the banks were all and they refused her money to keep the farm going . |
| 21 | Because she had to drive the RFFS vehicle , the crash crew person had to don the protective clothing after arriving at the scene . |
| 22 | She went over to it , her mouth dry , her pulses racing , and when she looked down at the cherubic child with bright golden hair she had to grip the arms for support . |
| 23 | She had to grip the saddle to prevent herself pitching forward on to the road . |
| 24 | So then she had to explain the rest of it , from the beginning . |
| 25 | If she did nothing else , she had to explain the one half-truth that , to her distraught mind , was the most damaging . |
| 26 | Things became so bad for the Charles Bal later on in the evening that she had to spend the entire night tacking back and forth south east of Krakatoa , probably remaining within twenty kilometres of it — the ash-fall from the eruption was so thick that Captain Watson could not see well enough to steer away to safety , but ironically , the glare from the volcano provided a weird and somewhat improbable lighthouse . |
| 27 | Suddenly a wave of total panic swept across her like nausea and she had to resist the urge to dash from the car and hide herself among the trees . |
| 28 | She had to resist the temptation to underrate him , to stereotype him as the handsome , experienced seducer of cheap fiction . |
| 29 | But that did n't mean she had to like the way he treated her like some sort of assistant . |
| 30 | ‘ Victoria , you 're a sensible girl , you go first , ’ was an order she heard often and with pleasure , for whatever ordeal into which she had to lead the rest , from construing straight-faced a suggestive passage of Ovid to pushing her pony through a muddy ford , was always rewarded by authority 's approval . |