Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 2 | I HAD to go to London recently — I still hate the place . |
| 3 | Matron said I had to go to bed early for a fortnight . |
| 4 | Er like such as er like er at er night time before we went , we always used to I had to go to bed early . |
| 5 | And we had to go to France then . |
| 6 | Well , I had to go to Westbourne again , to the to the laser you know ? |
| 7 | Later be became giddy , sick and weak and had to go to hospital twice , but no-one knew what was wrong with him . |
| 8 | I had to come into town anyway ; it was only a short detour to your place . |
| 9 | Carpenters who 'd thought their job was done , had to set to work again . |
| 10 | She had to walk into work tomorrow and face her colleagues . |
| 11 | When Sir Henry joined us , Holmes told him that we had to leave for London immediately after breakfast . |
| 12 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 13 | To keep these politicians in their high office , he might have said but did not , he and his people sometimes had to deal with creatures just as nasty as Zack . |
| 14 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 15 | On 18th December 1865 Henry Oakeley had to send for coal etc. to Montgomery Station : by 22nd January 1866 he was noting ‘ Sent for a load of coal to Bishop 's Castle Railway Stn ’ , and on 29th January 1866 ‘ Sent to Bishop 's Castle Railway Station for a cask of cider ’ . |
| 16 | Liz was humiliated by this , rather than enraged , but she knew that she had to qualify in order ever to be free and accepted the conditions . |
| 17 | The company chief , who also has a £1 million manor house at Seend , Wilts , took the microphone to say : ‘ I had to file for bankruptcy yesterday . |
| 18 | It is hard to put a value on a company which has large assets and turnover , but which is barely profitable , and it could be that BAe found the price it had to pay for Rover just too good to refuse . |
| 19 | ‘ They found us everywhere so we had to stay under water nearly twenty-three hours a day , and the air was so bad you had to lie down and sleep so you did n't use too much of it . ’ |
| 20 | Lucy had to stay in bed as much as possible on doctor 's orders , Dad was spending more and more time on the golf course and in the pub to escape from what he called the ‘ pressures ’ , and Charles was in an increasingly pessimistic mood about the future of Chester 's . |
| 21 | The deputy judge had to take into account also the other evidence relevant to the issue of testamentary competence . |
| 22 | In practice , like Richards , they had to rely on intuition rather than analysis , or at best on the consensus of experienced readers , a consensus which , the recent history of criticism seems to suggest , is not all that often achieved . |
| 23 | You tended not to have room to use cameras on cranes , so you had to rely on pedestals just to get them in there . |
| 24 | There was little point in staying in San José ; she had to head for Medellín as quickly as possible . |