Example sentences of "[pron] had [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , the clothes I had on was identical to that of P C . |
| 2 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |
| 3 | But I had to be content with a phone call . ’ |
| 4 | Nigel assured me that it would be more efficient than the wheel and produce considerably more electricity , and I had to be content with that . |
| 5 | But at the age of twelve I knew that a falconry course was way beyond my means , so for the time being I had to be content with reading about it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 8 | I had to be careful in the recording . ’ |
| 9 | I mean , I had to be frank with her . |
| 10 | ‘ Watching it as a professional I had to be concerned about poor defending , but the decision to play three up front certainly caused Southampton problems , ’ he added . |
| 11 | I had to be hard in those days , she thought . |
| 12 | ‘ I was suffering from a virus and was n't really fit , so all things considered I had to be happy with my performance , ’ he said . |
| 13 | I 'm not a hard person , but I had to be tough for the kid 's sake . ’ |
| 14 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Somehow , I had to be worthy of this sacrifice ; to make my life count , if only a little . |
| 17 | Lectures and concerts were to be given , for which topics of current interest should be very carefully chosen , and which had to be free for all comers . |
| 18 | The condition which had to be satisfied under that Act before a care order could be made was that ‘ his proper development is being avoidably prevented or neglected . ’ |
| 19 | Keepers discovered her desperately fighting for life at the West Midlands Safari Park where she had to be hand-reared before being transferred to the Kingsley wildlife sanctuary , Cheshire , where she takes every opportunity to hitch a ride from the resident Bull Terrier bitch . |
| 20 | As it was , she had to be content with glaring at him , subsiding beneath the Dame 's amused chuckle . |
| 21 | Both she and Ace had kept their inevitable contact strictly business ; in fact she had to be impressed with his total single-mindedness with his job , finding in his perfectionist attitude an answering chord within herself . |
| 22 | The exiled oppressor of her people had to die , and she had to be sure of it . |
| 23 | After all , Luke was still something of an unknown quantity , and she had to be sure of her ground when the right moment came , otherwise he would annihilate her . |
| 24 | She had to be one of the fastest production boats in the islands ; her twin big-block engines could hurl the three-ton wedge-shaped hull at over eighty miles an hour , and it worried neither McIllvanney nor Bellybutton that at such a speed a man could not hear himself scream and that even the smallest wave shook the bones right out of their flesh . |
| 25 | We 'll have to get the formalities over with first , ’ he said , and she had to be satisfied with that . |
| 26 | Despite the pain and the worry , Olivia knew she had to be brave for the sake of her six-year-old daughter Chloe , she told Hello ! magazine . |
| 27 | She had to be careful on the stairway down to the quay , because it was steep and the treads were so narrow . |
| 28 | She had to be careful of kissing because her own mother had died of diphtheria caught by kissing one of her grandchildren . |
| 29 | She had to be strict with herself : ruthless . |
| 30 | There was another superb performance from Dungannon 's Phelim Owens who finished fourth , but there was disappointment for Mark Coates who had to be content with 10th place . |