Example sentences of "we had [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We agreed that the lack of action was an outrage and that we had to draw people 's attention to it . |
| 2 | ‘ We had to draw straws for the food we had . ’ |
| 3 | But we had to obey Holmes ' orders . |
| 4 | We had to receive grace . |
| 5 | We had to say farewell to an outstanding sales force , under Tony Ferrary , at the end of November . |
| 6 | But we had to cease publication 2 months ago because we had no funding . |
| 7 | ‘ At a time when political parties could n't get twenty people in a room , we had to hold overflow meetings everywhere we went , ’ recalls Priestley , ‘ I do n't think we were ineffectual . |
| 8 | The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first , and then improve our public services . |
| 9 | Of course , from this end , we had to see England in all their matches and so a local production company was hired for the day — and I mean local . |
| 10 | We had to go boom like . |
| 11 | Friday and Saturday , I come by car on Saturday and I go away Saturday , then we had to go Friday . |
| 12 | But we had to take precautions.On the ground we took one or two ricochets which made marks on the skin of the aircraft , but nothing was punctured . |
| 13 | We had to take jobs with Del Monte , but they did n't pay us enough money to buy medicines as well as food . |
| 14 | ‘ In line with this responsibility , we had to take action against G&L . |
| 15 | There were just three scaldini in each compartment , so most of the time we had to take turns . |
| 16 | Shreeves said : ‘ Gary could be as bright as a button on Monday , but I felt we had to let Graham Taylor know . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Pity we had to leave Bonzo behind , but we knew he 'd be good at raising the alarm . ’ |
| 18 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 19 | So we had to arrange transport for women who could not be accompanied to the group . |
| 20 | Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size |
| 21 | ‘ We had to stop recording . |
| 22 | We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’ |
| 23 | They know we had to stop Saddam now , not later … |
| 24 | We had to do things off the board . |
| 25 | and then we had to do experiments on each other like putting tubes through our noses down into our stomachs |
| 26 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 27 | When I was in the fourth year at high school we had to do work experience for two weeks . |
| 28 | When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination . |
| 29 | ‘ We had to do manoeuvrability tests in three different cars , including a Cavalier automatic and a Corsa which I 'd never driven before . |
| 30 | We might have been able to put more into housing this year , but we had to put £50 million out of the block into local authority spending . |