Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camille had to agree that it did seem preposterous that anybody they had known should be dead . |
| 2 | And , and then er at that particular time you know and er then unemployment you , I you had to see each firm was issued with the and the firms had to agree that you had to sign a contract of employment so that er if you were leaving or he was paying you off , you had to be given two weeks ' notice either way before they pay you off . |
| 3 | With some reluctance , for this generation was not free of sexual solidarity , Tim had to agree that he knew what she meant . |
| 4 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 5 | She 'd called the police , and had to wait while they took statements , and things . |
| 6 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 7 | I was hungry but had to wait while he fiddled with a saucepan and then made me endure the smell of the meat coming from it . |
| 8 | Eva had become eccentric : when a decision was needed Ted and I often had to wait while she retired upstairs and meditated on the exact shape of the conservatory or the dimensions of the kitchen . |
| 9 | Yeah we got there for ten o'clock and we had to wait till they 'd finished all the out-patients before they 'd let the in-patients . |
| 10 | Maybe he thought that since there 'd been sixty-odd quid in my bag there 'd be more on my person , and he only had to wait till I nodded off and then he 'd nick it and away . |
| 11 | Yes I know but I thought you had to wait till you get this quote from from a regular |
| 12 | Everyone had to wait until he returned . |
| 13 | I found it curious that when everyone had finished Robert still had a plateful of food before him and we had to wait as he ate it and Lili talked and smoked her endless cigarettes . |
| 14 | Berthon was livid at one of his cars being butchered but had to acknowledge that it handled better . |
| 15 | Nehru had to acknowledge that he demonstrated ‘ reasonableness , restraint and good breeding ’ , but also he was seen to possess authority and a firm grasp of Afro — Asian realities . |
| 16 | Five different classes we had to cancel because nobody turned up . |
| 17 | ‘ I was saddened that it was felt I had to go but I suppose it was unsurprising , ’ he said . |
| 18 | She had to go and she had to go and live with them he could n't get married without . |
| 19 | Noboru Takeshita had to go because he received undeclared sums of money from the Recruit publishing-to-property conglomerate . |
| 20 | Now , in the faint light of the dawning day she had to accept that he had not done so . |
| 21 | It was very , very difficult for them , they had to come and they had to find the , the actual crash , and it was an appalling position to get to , erm , the efficiency was splendid . |
| 22 | But unfortunately the parting of the ways had to come and I worked in another wee shop er down in Albert Street in Leith . |
| 23 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 24 | She had to know that he had considered and that he was committed by his reply . |
| 25 | Petra to me had been listed with the Pyramids , Timbuktu , Venice , Hadrian 's Wall and Troy as places that I had to visit before I died . |
| 26 | ‘ I had to listen when she started to talk . |
| 27 | Petion had to duck as he preceded the Doctor into an adobe-style blockhouse , which was refreshingly cool inside . |
| 28 | He looked completely relaxed , and she had to own that she felt a little that way herself . |
| 29 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 30 | So I had to presume that they had been specially brought ; had been standing by , hiding somewhere , waiting for me to read the Foulkes pamphlet . |