Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stray dogs and chickens wandered in and had to be shooed out , and in the winter evenings when her mother told stories about saints and piskies and dragon-fillers by the light of the fire , the neighbouring children would crowd in at the door to listen , so that after a while her mother became known as the best storyteller in Polruan . |
| 2 | In the middle of Reverend Barr 's address a woman Maggie did n't recognize completely broke down and had to be led away . |
| 3 | It had provided that the deal could be varied in writing only and had to be signed by Mr Gillespie and by a director of the purchasing company acting with the authorisation of its board . |
| 4 | The garments exuded a damp musty smell , some were stiff , some visibly mildewed , some stuck together and had to be torn apart . |
| 5 | You may say the Americans were wonderful with their ambulances but they did n't pay for the dairy and half the animals were dead already or had to be slaughtered . |
| 6 | The high destination boxes of the three ex-Corporation cars just cleared the troughing under these two bridges , but the hoops of the ex-SouthmeT cars did not and had to be sawn off and the upper deck lamps were wired onto the handrails . |
| 7 | During Sunday morning warm-up , Jackie 's engine — his and the team 's favourite — went off and had to be replaced . |
| 8 | Or members imbibed a little too enthusiastically and had to be helped into a taxi . |
| 9 | When we moved he went AWOL and had to be recaptured and forcibly repatriated . |
| 10 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 11 | Stiletto heels narrowed as well and had to be strengthened with steel supports . |
| 12 | But the treaty also created a Council of Ministers , which met regularly and had to be consulted by the Authority . |
| 13 | It was hateful to have to be like that , and usually she did not allow herself to think on those lines , but it was there and had to be recognized as a factor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Salt was one of the very few necessaries of life that could not be produced anywhere and had to be transported from the centres of production on the sea coasts , on tidal rivers , and from certain inland centres . |