Example sentences of "[adv] had to put " in BNC.
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| 1 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 2 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
| 3 | as if he knew that he only had to put his arms around her for her to immediately surrender , to succumb , a willing victim , to the force of his dark enchantment . |
| 4 | You see , so these people were going to move in at the weekend so had to put a stop to that cos they had no authority to move in there until the solicitors try and get this thing sorted out . |
| 5 | When she finally had to put down my old cat Mrs , she said afterwards , ‘ Would you like to stay and be alone with her for a while ? |
| 6 | I just had to put in my ten pence , dial without thinking and see what happened . |
| 7 | Everything always seemed to be crap for actors and you just had to put up with it — while the present corruption continued . |
| 8 | So he just had to put up with the noise . |
| 9 | Well this frocks never arrived and she just had to put on an ordinary er white blouse you see and a skirt and the frocks arrived the next day and she put them back . |
| 10 | They just had to put up with it and turn a blind eye . |
| 11 | all mothers are sacred but I just had to put the boot in on her , I 'm afraid , I said stuff ! |
| 12 | He still had to put his own words on this blank sheet in front of him . |
| 13 | No forgotten outcast on a remote island ever had to put up with anything like this . |
| 14 | If they came in , with food or to check us over , we always had to put on our hoods first . ’ |
| 15 | The Chancellor was to be elected by a majority of the Bundestag to act as the head of the executive , and could only be removed from office by a ‘ constructive vote of no confidence ’ : that is , if the Bundestag voted a Chancellor out , they also had to put forward an alternative to replace him . |
| 16 | Now he bent and kissed her cheek ; it was a thin papery kiss , but she understood that ; understood when — rarely — she simply had to put her arms around him out of an exuberance of love , the instinctive shrinking , as though she held a wraith , something cold and wailing , a lost child . |
| 17 | Susan , a part-time school cook , then had to put on a brave face for a holiday in Spain with her children Emma , 10 and Jonathon , 13 . |
| 18 | Ianthe picked up a bottle in each hand , then had to put one of them down to ring the front door bell . |
| 19 | But he rarely had to put his hand in his own pocket . |
| 20 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 21 | We bet the Marquis De Sade never had to put up with bollocks like that . |