Example sentences of "we had [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we had to obey all her orders , and Joseph and I were not allowed to scold her any more . |
| 2 | And we had to move all them , there were a lot of hooha about it in the paper about what , a year ago ? |
| 3 | We had to lift some floorboards and they turned out to need replacing . |
| 4 | In order to travel all together in one compartment , we had to arrive more than half an hour before the train was to start . |
| 5 | There was one who told his wife , ‘ The reason I 'm late is that Harry died at the third hole , so we had to go all the way round the other fifteen holes on the course , dragging Harry . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But we had to go all the way along to the badger tunnel and there were no proper tracks . |
| 7 | ‘ I said some time ago that there was a mile to go and we had to go half a mile each , and the Community went more than its half a mile . |
| 8 | Yeah well we had , we had to abandon that , we brou we brought all our Employment Officers in on a Friday , erm and we just could n't staff the office the rest of the week you see |
| 9 | We had to circle all the islands in case we missed the eider . |
| 10 | We had to take all the gear up in a hoist . |
| 11 | Would it perhaps affect our outlook on the mother-child relationship if we had to take this responsibility on ourselves ? |
| 12 | We had to fix some management problems . ’ |
| 13 | He says , I feel awful we were making plans that being the week to go out so they had trouble with wagon so we had to spend some time on wagon . |
| 14 | And we had to shift this lot . |
| 15 | Then we had to leave that too . |
| 16 | Now we had to reverse all those brittle ice traverses with broken tools . |
| 17 | And er we the tea the class All the boys It were all boys er we we had to carry Each carry a chair up to the new school . |
| 18 | But in Summer those were dry we had to carry all the water then . |
| 19 | We had to roast all them and then grind all our own coffee . |
| 20 | Well , we should have knocked off work at about twelve on the Saturday , and instead of that , being a shop , they were taking orders and we had to do all the alterations as they came in , and bought the clothes . |
| 21 | They always left because they were afraid of my stepfather , and we had to do all the work in the house . |
| 22 | We had to do all the food , you know all there |
| 23 | No not really erm we had to do all about guards . |
| 24 | Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work . |
| 25 | Coming in at all , so that 's , that is n't easy , but it , eh were it works it 's really good I mean for example we , we d o up the Poll Tax enforcement policy , erm and again it was where the Cou I mean if the Council had followed the legislation on Poll Tax collection , it 's you know , erm and it did n't want to do that , and so again well , it 's , well it 's related to this legislation bit , but we looked at , we looked at how we could get round that legal procedure and we looked at developing a more sensitive policy and we had to do that with other departments . |
| 26 | We had to do that , the stevedores had to do that , my first of stevedoring . |
| 27 | So in , in both projects I think we had to do that first step . |
| 28 | Er , there you said I 'd got three formwork gangs or four formwork gangs six a gang er and here you said I 'd got so many so we had to do that . |
| 29 | but we had to do that with her having a sore throat . |
| 30 | Oh we had to do that erm Neighbours yesterday . |