Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector . |
| 2 | The tempered steel pins which held the handles in position were rather difficult to fit , and eventually had to be hammered in . |
| 3 | Encouraged by their neighbour 's cheeriness , Ellie and her brother went round to the back of her house and shyly waited to be let in . |
| 4 | " In the narrow mind of this Boy Scout person , with his doll 's face ( popin ) , who only just knew where I ran was , the Shah was a dictator who put people in prison and so had to be replaced as soon as possible with a democracy like the USA " . |
| 5 | However , any drawings of the women were forbidden , and so had to be constructed using many sources of information . |
| 6 | Because of this ritual we wondered if Madame was privy to his secret , if she knew the story , if she sat by him because she knew that O 's great self-possession and his quietness were in fact the signs of a pain which had to be kept hidden , a pain which stayed fresh and so had to be controlled every hour of the night . |
| 7 | Rediscovered in the sixties , it was not an illicit substance , and so came to be used quite widely . |
| 8 | What carried pagan religious significance , and thus had to be shunned , and what was mere urban romping , and might therefore be — just — tolerated ? |
| 9 | Further , 25% of tutors ' fees were not grant-aided and thus had to be met from other sources principally donations , subscriptions and through appeals to branches , with some assistance from the National WEA when its own difficult financial position allowed , usually about £50 a year . |
| 10 | And the woman in her picture , with her Victorian gown : had she pissed herself and calmly waited to be changed ? |
| 11 | Quite apart from this , the legislation required that the gathering of evidence by other means would be unlikely to succeed , or would be considerably more difficult ; a warrant would apply to only one suspect , so that there were no general warrants ; the warrants would remain in force for three months and thereafter had to be renewed ; and the person concerned generally had to be notified as soon as possible after the surveillance ended that he or she had been the target of such surveillance . |
| 12 | This turned out to be impracticable , partly because they were needed for training and also had to be moved between aerodromes because of changes in the strategic and tactical situation , but also , more importantly , just how do you build an aeroplane for one flight only ? |
| 13 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 14 | Chief environmental health officer Hugh O'Neill said firemen who had gone to put out fires on the site had been attacked by missile throwers , and now had to be accompanied by police . |
| 15 | Her thoughts were twirling around and , however much she told herself that all that astrology stuff was nonsense , she could not prevent the doubts that had taken root and now refused to be urged away . |
| 16 | Sometimes , of course , all that had arisen was a lump of anxiety in her throat at being interrupted for so long in the middle of work which required a high degree of concentration and often had to be done to a deadline . |
| 17 | However , this was not to be since their drains were either late , abandoned , or non-existent , while promises of building sites were made and then had to be broken because of the absence of drains ! |
| 18 | At parties occasionally we will recall the full horror of the event in one of those conversations which goes something like : ‘ You were delayed six hours and then had to be diverted to a branch line 50 miles out of your way on a train that had no heating and no buffet . |
| 19 | She was refused and then had to be taken off duty with bronchitis and exhaustion . |
| 20 | The official results of the May 11 contest were not expected until June , and then had to be endorsed by Congress , but , with an estimated 86 per cent of the votes counted , unofficial tallies showed Ramos leading his closest rivals , Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco and former judge Miriam Defensor Santiago , by a comfortable but not extensive margin . |
| 21 | Yes , they probably would sing it in Latin in the Catholic , they they certainly use erm , Latin , and of course the words have changed depending whether it 's a King or a Queen on the s on on on the throne , and from , it 's gone from God Save Our Lord The King , to God Save Our Gracious Queen , and that came in , of course , in the time of Victoria , and then had to be brought in again , er , at the time of erm , Queen Elizabeth . |
| 22 | And not so Svidrigailov and Raskolnikov , both hyperconscious men , and both ( as we shall see ) linked by their condition to the city which Peter the Great pondered over and then ordered to be built . |
| 23 | So where Bangladeshis spent periods of time in the United Kingdom interspersed with periods in Bangladesh and then brought their families to the United Kingdom , took temporary accommodation , and then applied to be treated as a homeless person , it was held that the local authority was entitled to refuse them . |
| 24 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |
| 25 | He was eventually banned by the Italian Football Association for failing a drugs test and virtually had to be smuggled out of the country in the dark of night to save his sanity back home in Argentina . |
| 26 | Sabre the dog was old and ill when this picture was taken , and sadly had to be put to sleep shortly afterwards |
| 27 | What he asked was guidance in the matter of a young man 's death , a clean young man who handled lambs with gentleness and care , as lambs of God , and never deserved to be done to death suddenly before his time , however the love of God might have set a secure hand under him as he fell , and lifted him into light . |