Example sentences of "and had [prep] be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On only one occasion was I given an address , and had to be content with those of head offices . |
| 2 | To his chagrin , Jane was not appointed to any official position during World War I , and had to be content with privately supporting naval recruiting and propaganda . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough , however , were overhauled by Wirral in the second half of the fixture and had to be content with second place . |
| 4 | Smoking was permitted but the number and timing of cigaretteswere noted on a diary sheet and had to be similar on all study days . |
| 5 | One of them , a calf called Samia , born in February 1985 , was abandoned by her mother and had to be bottle-fed by Anna . |
| 6 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 7 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |