Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 2 | On erm food and noise , we 're still very , very busy indeed , and our figure for noise inspection is higher than it ever has been before , and the comment that was made under that section will show you that some of that most certainly is the amount of work that the team had to carry out during the summer , one of the benefits of our glorious summer is that most of us slept with our windows fully open for three months or more and one of the dis-benefits was that if anybody else down the road had a party that went beyond normal bed-time , everybody shared that , and our team was very busy in consequence . |
| 3 | As she did not want to reveal how much Shildon had reported , she had to sit again through the complicated story of the sale of the lease . |
| 4 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 5 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 6 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 9 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 10 | We have now finished coaling at Chapmans Well , but had to wait right to the very end for the best coal . |
| 11 | But for three hours singers , orchestra and audience ( many of the latter stading ) had to wait impatiently in the overheated atmosphere until the opera should begin . |
| 12 | If you were caught , you had to wait there until the end . |
| 13 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 14 | The vehicle was parked on a yellow line and so close to the Market Street junction that vehicles emerging from that road had to swing out onto the wrong side of the High Street . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 18 | We had to go downstairs to the toilet , and in the winter the water used to freeze up . |
| 19 | Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry . |
| 20 | These cottage front doors were never used — some even had rows of flowerpots across the sill as a deterrent — and Anna had to go round to the back to find a resting place for the magazine . |
| 21 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 22 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 23 | Sartre and de Beauvoir had to go elsewhere after the Liberation . |
| 24 | Not Adam Burns , though — oh no , he had to go straight for the jugular . |
| 25 | He had to make frequent visits to hospital , for plaster to be changed , for X-rays and check-ups , and as unfortunately further cancer cells had been found in his spine , he had to go periodically to the Christie Hospital again . |
| 26 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 27 | ‘ Because I only found the portrait — I was only able to identify the man in her diary when I had to go out to the cottage last Saturday . |
| 28 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |
| 29 | A teacher , again in a Southall primary school , told of an ‘ amusing ’ incident when an Indian girl of ten was reduced to tears when she had to go out in the sun in the summer term . |
| 30 | had to go out in the road ! |