Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] had to be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 2 | I 'd have liked a job but you could n't , because the men had to be looked after , you just had to be there . |
| 3 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |
| 4 | Then , as now , to play a National Tri-Plate you either had to be very rich or very lucky . |
| 5 | We always had to be properly dressed even in the wee small hours when we were only looking forward to being relieved so we could fall into bed . |
| 6 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 7 | What was it about him , that he only had to be near for her natural calm professionalism to fly out of the window ? |
| 8 | It just had to be upfront and radical . |
| 9 | Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there . |