Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [pers pn] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had to be done and he needed to be unconscious . |
| 2 | The boat 's engine could not be used and she had to be paddled , sculled , pushed and pulled through the floods . |
| 3 | More than half thought the school had explained but it seemed to be in the past , a one-off opportunity and not an on-going process . |
| 4 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 5 | Lord Lawson did not specify which taxes should be increased but he appeared to be calling for higher indirect taxation , rather than higher income tax , to bring in an extra £6 billion . |
| 6 | His lank locks had to be shorn and he had to be kitted-out with battle-dress and ammunition boots . |
| 7 | Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost . |
| 8 | And the days passed and the nights passed and it seemed to be just waiting for death . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She knew too much to be fired and she refused to be bought out with money or offers of promotion . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | McNab 's head was lowered and he seemed to be pondering in a lugubrious sort of way . |
| 13 | 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 . |