Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] have to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |
| 2 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 3 | I just have to be careful as I pick my way past the grubby piles of snow at the edges of the pavement . |
| 4 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 5 | I always had to be polite and caring . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And anyway , why do I always have to be the German ? ’ |
| 7 | In one way the length of the history was a good thing as I have benefited in the end from the latest surgical techniques available in London , and although I still have to be careful it has made a tremendous difference to my life . |
| 8 | I do n't like leaving her on her own too long ( I usually have to be away for about eight hours ) . |
| 9 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 10 | In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously . |
| 11 | In any case , it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared . |
| 12 | When they rescued him he was suffering from frostbite and had a broken tail which eventually had to be amputated . |
| 13 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 14 | Why not do it and leave it ready the day before , then all that is needed is one minute to set the garter carriage in operation and you will come home to a sleeve which only has to be cast off . |
| 15 | The former , which apparently has to be seen in the context of the political climate of the 1940s , is an analysis of Stalinism and Stalinist parties as ‘ tools of the Kremlin ’ , the issue of which led James to break with current Trotskyist thinking . |
| 16 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 17 | There is therefore a need to question this assumption that aggression is a given element which somehow has to be accounted for . |
| 18 | The bulk of sales of dailies and periodicals here is not at the news stands , but via annual subscriptions which normally have to be renewed by 1 October . |
| 19 | The antique and classic park included much to interest the enthusiast , with bucket loads of Stearmen and Staggerwings , all manner of Ryan , Waco , Stinson and Cessna variants , oddest of which just had to be the Waco ZVN–8 N1937S , a 1938 built biplane with tricycle undercarriage ! |
| 20 | Or is it something which just has to be considered as part of the planning process ? |
| 21 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 22 | Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched . |
| 23 | The agreement , which still had to be endorsed by local chiefs , left central Bougainville as the only area where government services had yet to be restored . |
| 24 | There are still plenty of places available on both sets of courses and we have decided that , in an attempt to help governing bodies evaluate the courses , we can offer a free place on each course which still has to be held . |
| 25 | Again , they have to interpret their position according to their genetic programme and all these processes are controlled by genes , which still have to be identified . |
| 26 | And if it does happen to you , how are you going to cope with all the household bills , which still have to be paid ? |
| 27 | I will run as quickly as I can through the minutes of the last meeting just raising those things which still have to be actioned . |
| 28 | ‘ John Brown , for example , was immense throughout the last 15 minutes of the match , which also had to be the longest of my life , ’ he stated . |
| 29 | Most of the problems in this area have now been resolved by the requirement that undertakings by a company not to create subsequent charges having priority to an existing charge have to be registered in the company 's register of charges and this will constitute notice to any person who is taking a charge which also has to be registered . |
| 30 | A plaque on a courtyard wall pays tribute to his defence of the castle , which collapsed only when cannon on loan from Elizabeth devastated the main east front , which later had to be entirely rebuilt . |