Example sentences of "he had [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he wanted to reach an object he had to set out in the wrong direction and hope to angle in on it ! |
| 2 | Either he had to go up to the Broken Hill Ironworks at Newcastle or she had to go down to Canberra to see some official about tariffs or quotas or immigration levels . |
| 3 | This meant he had to go back to the county party and ask to be put back on their panel of candidates , a request which was turned down on Saturday . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's fine , ’ said Comfort , ‘ but he had to go back to the hospital after dinner . |
| 5 | He had to go back in the end because there was no one else to put her to bed , but he hated touching her . ’ |
| 6 | She remembered how she had n't been allowed to hold him for more than a moment before he had to go back behind the bars of his crib . |
| 7 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 8 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 9 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 11 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 12 | He had to kneel down in the muddy track , damaging his trousers , reminding him of playground agonies ; he gripped , tugged , balanced . |
| 13 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 14 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 15 | He had to sit out in the corridor at Windsor listening to Electrophone transmissions of some opera that went on and on before the warblers saw fit to die with some interminable aria . |
| 16 | At one point he had to slow down for a distance of several miles . |
| 17 | His first-rate performances — in Hotel in New Hampshire , and as a retarded man in Square Dance — were largely unhonoured , and his many other movies were n't hot , Worse , he had to scrabble out from a confusion of drink , drugs and sexual adventure that had finally landed him in the tabloids and the jokebooks . |
| 18 | He had to run back in the dark and make safe the Lewes bomb . |
| 19 | It came away from the wall and he had to grab on to a crate to stop himself overbalancing . |
| 20 | Chris said she laughed and he had to rush out of the house or he 'd have killed her … . |
| 21 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 22 | So he placed an order with him for all these , and he had to come back to the factory , reorganize the factory , to meet this terrific order he 'd got for pencils , you see . |
| 23 | Last season it became so inflamed that he had to pull out of the Carolls Irish Open at Portmarnock . |
| 24 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |
| 25 | He had to dodge in to the roadside as an open-backed van loaded with milk-crates passed , its brakelights glowing as it slowed to take in the bend . |
| 26 | ‘ The DI 's compliments , sir , but he had to get back to the station . |
| 27 | Wycliffe was alone and he had to get out of the car to rouse a sleeping dog in the roadway . |
| 28 | He had to get out of the school . |
| 29 | I do n't know how he got out , I mean our road is so difficult anyway , of course there wa , that night there were two , yeah two when them , he had to get out in the morning , but er , I mean he did it , but I expect it was a struggle |