Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence the study had to fall back on a proxy for measures of ill health — standardised mortality ratios ( SMRs ) or death rates from different diseases standardised by age . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 9 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 10 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 11 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 14 | Had to go up to a hundred . |
| 15 | feet of the cow was not in the original photograph so I had to go up to a a farm and ask for straw to hide the |
| 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 | I had to go round with a can of milk ! |
| 19 | they had to go round with a blow lamp to get the frost and the dew in those big houses |
| 20 | Someone had to go round with the coals , wash up , sweep , scrub , polish , fetch and carry . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 23 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 24 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 25 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 26 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 27 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 28 | No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | And they fought the fire until they were finally er had to go out of the tower altogether . |