Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to frighten kids to make them behave , but there was no need to scare them too much . |
| 2 | He just had to let things run their normal course . |
| 3 | When my rheumatoid arthritis was very bad it has been very bad and very chronic , and it still can be some days , erm I had more ways of getting up and down those stairs and I got up and down , but I had to invent ways to do it . |
| 4 | Most of the officers had to send orderlies to fetch their bows . |
| 5 | He 'd never had a good word to say for them before , a bunch o' thieving magpies , he always said , living off the fat of the land while he had to pay taxes to keep 'em . |
| 6 | The Charles Bal and Sir Robert Sale were beating about in the darkness for the whole of the twenty-seventh , and ash rained down on them so steadily that the crews had to spend hours shovelling it off the decks and shaking it clear of sails and rigging . |
| 7 | The campaign was launched after parents in the east end complained they had to travel miles to take their children to nurseries . |