Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't have time to talk cos I had to be here for nine . |
| 2 | ‘ I know how you must feel but I had to be sure you were n't another journalist out for a story . ’ |
| 3 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 4 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 5 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 6 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 7 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 9 | I felt like I had to be in a group . ’ |
| 10 | They were but it , well it was an event , a big event in , in the , among the younger people anyway in Brooks in Willenhall then and er it was really lovely , really lovely I forget if we had to pay to go in , but er we had er we saved up for a good few weeks before , so that we would have some money to spend at the Wakes it was one of the an event of the year then , but erm I used to like Willenhall Wakes and er I used to go dancing a lot well I was allowed to go dancing cos I 've always loved singing and dancing you see and er I was allowed but I had to be home before my father got home , but I was n't always . |
| 11 | and there was another one across the way and she was deteriorating , she was getting nervous right there , see if I had to be brought away you know |
| 12 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |