Example sentences of "and [adv] they [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This right disappeared in 1842 , and thereafter they had to be tried in a normal Portuguese court , but the jury had to be half British and half Portuguese — this right has also , of course , long since disappeared . |
| 2 | I got myself a larger size and even they seemed to be pretty neat . |
| 3 | And then they had to be a for a certain length of time before they would be a master joiner . |
| 4 | Or it might suggest that the religious symbols , by which men and women have conferred meaning on their lives , meet such pressing psychological needs that they remain impervious to scientific frames of meaning , which , in the last analysis , only dictate how things are and how they came to be so , without pretending to answer the why and the wherefore . |
| 5 | And recently they seemed to be running out of control … |