Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 2 | Lancashire they used to call it and , we used to , they used to set one on at first and then , as he knocked , if he could knock one off his feet onto his two feet , then he had to help him to knock the others over as they come in close and er , I know they do n't sound nothing like , you know , now but er , in them days we use to think it was great . |
| 3 | Right away I had to leave it to answer the telephone . |
| 4 | Yes I , I know that bit I did n't know you had to do something to stop the |
| 5 | He was so moved by what he saw inside the orphange that he felt he had to do something to give the children a better start . |
| 6 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 7 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 8 | You know ’ — she almost had to force herself to use the strange name — ‘ Buck Kettering 's daughter . ’ |
| 9 | The sea was so cold she had to force herself to take the plunge . |
| 10 | I even had to pay someone to cut the grass the other day — I wanted to do that . |
| 11 | I was astonished by the number of people there and grateful for their warmth and support , but I felt I had to convince everybody to take the campaign home with them . |
| 12 | My father , a busy doctor , had to have someone to run the house and to look after me . |
| 13 | Oh I said , well she had to say something gave the three back , get her flowers and er chocolates or something and the same for his mum . |
| 14 | Then , of course , we had to plaster it using the right kind of plaster . ’ |
| 15 | The mugged man even had to ask them to call the police , claimed the Victim Support group . |