Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For the mid-air leap , Crawford had to drive up a narrow thirty-foot ramp and jump from a height of seven feet over a wall . |
| 32 | The great hero Sigmar first united the men of the middle Old World into the Empire , and to do so he had to drive out the Orcs and Goblins that lived there . |
| 33 | Gone are the days when you had to slide down a muddy bank and hold an old mercury one at arms length . |
| 34 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 35 | She had witnessed both the joys and the stresses with her own parents , the late actor , Tony Sharp and actress mother , Margaret Wedlake . |
| 36 | Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements . |
| 37 | Howells left his station to score the first after 67 minutes , and by the time Teddy Sheringham had tucked away a second from the penalty spot — earned by the sheer stamina of Durie — Spurs could have had a couple more . |
| 38 | Gray , who had tucked away the penalty which set up Quakers ' promotion to the Third Division only a few weeks before , had never managed a club , and by Christmas it was becoming clear that , while a likeable character , he was not in the same class as his predecessor . |
| 39 | Last week a Durham City vehicle took 25 minutes to answer an emergency call in Bishop Auckland , and recently a woman in Upper Teesdale had to wait over an hour for an ambulance . |
| 40 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 41 | ‘ I 've got pretty good hearing but I had to wait almost a moment before I could imagine I could hear anything . |
| 42 | His measures had welded together an invincible voter coalition . |
| 43 | Ian MacDonald and he had stripped down the old wreck and searched junk yards for spare parts . |
| 44 | Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing . |
| 45 | I felt a little guilty at leaving the Websters , as we had developed quite a good relationship . |
| 46 | Holy Mother , she had blurted out the wrong thing already . |
| 47 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 48 | He smilingly proffered me a cup of watered wine in one of the goblets I had hidden away the previous evening . |
| 49 | Many of the Minpins who had flown away a short while before were now returning on their birds . |
| 50 | Nesting for the first time in the delta since the 16th century , the flamingos had flown up the coast from the southern province of Malaga after finding their traditional nesting ground in the Fuente de Piedra lake had dried up after a prolonged drought . |
| 51 | Groups spoke of ‘ strategies ’ and making ‘ career moves ’ ; the jargon of the Harvard Business School had banished forever the Utopian cliches of Woodstock , and the anarchist ones of punk . |
| 52 | ‘ She wanted to go to this pop festival at Roskilde in Denmark , ’ Margaret Price had explained tonelessly the evening she 'd arrived on Gina 's doorstep in obvious distress . |
| 53 | Ruth wondered how Maria Luisa had explained away the baby she had conceived with her ‘ jolly good friend ’ . |
| 54 | Liz 's gurgle of laughter had floated down the wires . |
| 55 | It was carved into planes of rugged indifference , though the blue eyes that blazed at Charity were filled with cynical censure that left her in no doubt that he had heard almost every word Mandy had uttered about him . |
| 56 | During a three-day trial , the court had heard how a family argument flared into midnight violence in the hamlet of Aberargie , where the accused had occupied a caravan beside his brother 's cottage . |
| 57 | The court had heard how the raid had been abandoned after a cache of tools and equipment commonly used in bank raids was discovered in a bus shelter . |
| 58 | You see we had heard quite a bit about him — the locals boggle at the way in which he does n't dodge his taxes . |
| 59 | He dominated the conversation , holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white-slave ring in Dublin , and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death . |
| 60 | He ran the pub with his wife , an Irish woman who was known as Mrs Nora , and whose reputation along the docks had been assured the day she had broken up a brawl between a huge Turk who had just knifed two men , and a dozen of the wounded men 's shipmates . |