Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to tow it home because the clutch had gone . |
| 2 | If people got seriously ill , we had to carry them back ( to Thai border camps ) in hammocks . ’ |
| 3 | Two of the boys had to carry him in . |
| 4 | Sally often refused to get out of bed to get ready for nursery and her mother had to carry her out and then dress her . |
| 5 | Before he had decided what to do , Hebbert found himself in full layback position and simply had to carry it through or fall . |
| 6 | Mind you these was instructions from the office to me , telling me what I , what they wanted and I had to carry it out . |
| 7 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 8 | I come from a military family , that is to say a family that has always followed the drum , and probably had to carry it too . |
| 9 | You know , imagine it if you had to carry it all around , going , doing the shopping doing the lot |
| 10 | Just as well you agreed to go quietly when Kenneth suggested it was time you went to bed ; though apparently he and Hamish practically had to carry you upstairs , and the whole way up you were muttering something vile about Lewis being thrown naked into a tub of starving Elephant Leeches . ’ |
| 11 | It stretched it and started all bleeding and I had and I had to sew it up with a sewing kit . |
| 12 | You had to saw it halfway through , did n't you ? |
| 13 | Something happened and she just said it , then she hit me and I had to hit her back . |
| 14 | Sometimes we came across toys in antique booksellers and felt we had to include them too . |
| 15 | Like Croydon , Penge U.D.C. had the right to purchase its tramways in each seventh year on granting six months ' notice , but if it did , it had to lease them back to the Company . |
| 16 | People without the ready money to buy a necessity of life like a house , who had to borrow it not from an individual with the distasteful label ‘ money-lender ’ , but a non-profit mutual cooperation body called a building society , were respectable . |
| 17 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 18 | Before the printing of outer G could resume , a compositor had to reset it completely . |
| 19 | I do n't know what the drink was — brandy or whisky — I had that much , I had it twice , so that the lads had to see me home because I was more or less drunk . |
| 20 | He 'd forced himself to do this , sneak down here , humiliate himself because he had to see her now , this evening . |
| 21 | Every hour mattered : I had to see her as soon as possible . |
| 22 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 23 | When we met again at the funeral , I knew that I had to see you again soon . |
| 24 | But I 'd already decided that I had to see you again , spend some time with you , and this was one way of doing it . ’ |
| 25 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 26 | And then she came bounding back and could n't stop herself , went straight into Doreen , knocked Doreen off her legs completely , and she was just sprawled out on all fours , it was just hilarious , we , in fact we did an action replay on that because you had to see it again to believe it . |
| 27 | It seemed a bit lukewarm , and we felt we had to go it alone . |
| 28 | She was not the dependent type and if she had to go it alone then so be it . |
| 29 | I started to shrink inwardly , and then I thought , well , she had to spot it sometime . |
| 30 | Either he was in the early depressed state , with hands hanging , or else flailing his limbs about , unsafe to be with ; at such times they had to strap him down . |