Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had [prep] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and you 'd er they 'd er just bang on the door and , and call you and you had to be downstairs in five minutes . |
| 2 | And you had to be very careful with the grouse . |
| 3 | But er with the the the er the original the the first one , you had to heat it up with a blowlamp and you had to be very very careful to get it just to the right heat , before if you tried to start it too cold , it would kick back and if was too hot again , it just would n't start . |
| 4 | Well , to keep it tidy , you see the , the creases used to come out so quickly , and we had to be , well on parade you were , you were looked at and you had to be very tidy and proper and er if you did n't do it you were told to do it and that was that . |
| 5 | ‘ Designing Ancient Rome was in fact more difficult than the science fiction adventures , because one was recreating somewhere that actually existed , and you had to be as accurate as you could within the limits of the budget . |
| 6 | So my mum went out but then she still had to read it all because I was under-age and she had to be there . |
| 7 | ‘ L Detachment on the other hand , had set a minimum standard to which all ranks had to attain and we had to be most firm in returning to their units ( R.T.U. ) those who were unable to reach that standard . ’ |
| 8 | and er , and we had to be so we got Ian 's one did when we pedal up and down |
| 9 | The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth . |
| 10 | And the horses well they they 're the worst to ship some were really bad and they had to be severely tied . |
| 11 | The West Country 's joy at being able to combine quality and tradition in the shape of brand-new brown-and-cream-liveried bus-based four-wheeled diesel units for local branch services turned to dismay when their long wheelbase caused ear-splitting squeals on tight curves , and they had to be rapidly replaced by the thirty-year-old DMUs they had supplanted , fortunately not yet scrapped . |
| 12 | He made it clear that he stayed at La Tour Monchauzet because the vines needed him — and because he was sure that one day — somehow — Isabelle would return to him , and he had to be here — waiting . ’ |
| 13 | Yes that was counted in it too and it had to be well parked . |
| 14 | You knew immediately that Jancey had stuffed these guys into her flat because she knew I 'd come for a showdown , and it had to be tonight . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 17 | The various houses hid as much Champagne as they dared by sealing up some of their cellars , but they had to be very careful not to attract attention . |
| 18 | She was a willowy five feet , five inches , but he had to be over six feet . |