Example sentences of "had [to-vb] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And I had to drive to Mould oh !
2 ‘ You had to drive to Karlovy Vary , and invited me along . ’
3 They were greatly upset , but discussion was cut short as his father had to drive to Glasgow to meet Joan , his sister , and John , her husband , to bring them to Fife to spend the festive season .
4 The recipients had to agree to devaluation among other provisions .
5 Store chiefs at the Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield saw a record 150,000 people turn up , 12,000 more than on the same day last year and in Hull police had to appeal to drivers not to take cars into the city because it was full by midday .
6 I had to go to court , to pay five bob , cos I were riding a bike without a light .
7 Do you remember when I come home from er Welwyn and I , I had to go to court ?
8 So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not .
9 ‘ I told you , she had to go to Durham . ’
10 Just before Christmas I had to go to Windsor , and did n't have time to get to the surgery to fill up .
11 Cawthorne had to go to America to research the book .
12 It was perhaps fortunate for both of them that Mr Toogood was in America and Mr Shelve was at home in Haslemere with influenza , but publishers had to go to America and they were also as likely as anyone else to catch influenza , Penelope explained .
13 He had to go to Germany in July to talk to students and others about embalming , and was talking to Poland .
14 with them and one or two remained behind but er , yes it was interesting how erm I always found it rather funny that er you had to go to Leiston to Sudbury to evacuated to school
15 Was it was it difficult then to have to have got a job in Nottingham , you had to go to Newark because it was w work was n't as ava as as er
16 In June the Avonlea boys and girls had to go to Charlottetown to take their examinations .
17 Except when he had to go to sea .
18 The entry for a week later reads : ‘ Had to go to Hospice .
19 The businessmen travelled , of course , in the first-class carriages , dividing easily into groups so that compartments were made up between more or less particular cronies … any wife or daughter who had to go to Manchester by one of those trains always travelled third ; to share a compartment with the ‘ gentlemen ’ ( we were taught never to call them just plainly ‘ men ’ ) would have been unthinkable .
20 And then , in the , I think it was the June , I came down to Colchester , and as soon as I got to Colchester the old adjutant nurse said oh you , going for a a B one qualification , and I had to go to Colchester to the Ordnance , it , it , it was an Ordnance workshops I suppose that was what it was .
21 So I had to go to Moscow and look for some plywood .
22 You deprived me of the chance to be there for him , and for my mother , when he was dying , because there were n't any jobs going in radio in Johannesburg at the time , so I had to go to Durban .
23 Had to go to Buckingham Palace and meeting had to be adjourned-12. sworn member of the Privy Council , and afterwards had 55 minutes with the King .
24 I had to go to Tangier .
25 She did n't say I had to go to South Shields .
26 I HAD to go to London recently — I still hate the place .
27 I had to go to London and I could n't leave her .
28 I had to go to London .
29 But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while
30 Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture .
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