Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceilidh was held in the stable yard of the castle but as there was no lighting , festivities had to cease when it got dark ; great to live by nature 's principles like this , but a shame to stop when it was going so well ! |
| 2 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 3 | Camille had to agree that it did seem preposterous that anybody they had known should be dead . |
| 4 | The categories of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ were not , however , abolished , and a Local Education Authority had to decide whether it wished a middle school to be ‘ deemed ’ to be primary or secondary . |
| 5 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 6 | Mungo had to admit that it did not . |
| 7 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |