Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaders had their work cut out keeping the group together , and one or both had to remain at the back to motivate the slower ones — the most effective method seemed to be carrying their kit , though this tended to be a last resort . |
| 2 | My baby had to remain at the nursing home , as I had no one to look after him , and he was not admitted into hospital because of whooping-cough in the nursery there . |
| 3 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 4 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 5 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 6 | So , they could n't get it into their heads that you had to sit on the floor . |
| 7 | ‘ Sometimes I had to sit on the tobacco setter , putting plants in the ground , but one summer was enough for me , ’ she recalls . |
| 8 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 9 | She had to sit in the waiting-room , on a slippery horsehair sofa , while it was going on . |
| 10 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 11 | I knew that if I had to drive to the park or into the country first , then the walking would never get done except at weekends . |
| 12 | She had to drive to the end of the street to turn round ; when she passed Giles 's house on the way back the door was closed . |
| 13 | Competitors had to drive around the country 's top racing circuits within the five-day time period . |
| 14 | All had to agree to the investment , and at the last minute Stockport , the only council where Labour had lost overall control to a mixture of Tories and Liberals , vetoed the decision . |
| 15 | A man in Chippenham , Wilts , had to clamber on the roof of his car after being marooned by floods . |
| 16 | So if it peaks two years before you plan to cash in , you do not lose because you had to wait for the money . |
| 17 | You had to wait for the flash and details of the changes in interest rates on Black Wednesday — a day of vital interest for small businessmen and mortgage holders up and down the country . |
| 18 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 19 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 20 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 21 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 22 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 23 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 24 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 25 | Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat . |
| 26 | In many cases the actual amount of information given in the recalls was minimal , limited to whether a subject had to wait at the junction and whether there was other traffic around at the time . |
| 27 | The decorative potential of ivory and its pleasant feel were first explored by Upper Palaeolithic man , but more sophisticated uses of the material had to wait on the development of more complex societies marked by more or less pronounced hierarchies . |
| 28 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 29 | Substantial supplies had to wait on the mining of reefs first found as late as 1880 outcropping on the Tawmaw plateau . |
| 30 | So he had to wait in the house and er now it 's bed time now . |