Example sentences of "[adv] had [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great metal roof-tree which held the house together had bent inwards as though from some giant 's blow , and listening , Rachel could hear tiles still slithering down the slope and crashing into the street forty feet below . |
| 2 | But England only had to bat steadily and they were home , and Gooch , Broad , Gatting and Lamb did just that . |
| 3 | She felt depressed , suspecting that her quip about rot setting in had held more than a few grains of truth . |
| 4 | Leila had said it would be presumptuous for them all to descend on Roirbak like an unwelcome plague , so had communicated ahead and reserved rooms in a cheap hostel popular with nomad natros . |
| 5 | Inwardly I had a sneaking admiration for them because they had been sure that they did n't like the Legion and so had acted directly and left . |
| 6 | We just had to go up and see him and |
| 7 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 8 | Well I had that with this little locum , but er , a South African , did n't feel a thing , mind you a lot of fillings came out thought just had to go back and have it put in again , but she drilled such a small whole that , that , the dentist I saw , another nice young man , cos my dentist had gone , she 's re-filled it , and going to be alright because her fillings out and it was a bit rough , they did n't sort of goes inwards sort of |
| 9 | We just had to sit there and ride through the flak . |
| 10 | The local people who were unemployed just had to sit there and look out of their windows at others doing work they desperately wanted . ’ |
| 11 | Up until the solo I just had to think constantly as I was playing . |
| 12 | The only person more surprised than me was Ken , who just had to follow along as best he could . |
| 13 | The right hon. Gentleman already had to allocate more than £10 million to offset part of the cost of implementing the council tax in Wales . |
| 14 | When the article was produced , he already had had more than 40 years service with the Scottish Amicable . |
| 15 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 16 | Though the space was suddenly there for us , we still had to come forward and claim it . |
| 17 | They had made an exception , but she still had to come in and read it . |
| 18 | ‘ And of course I always had to argue instead and make things worse . ’ |
| 19 | He always had to leave off before he came , feeling sure his head would burst otherwise . |
| 20 | The formulation of a course for validation placed a greater burden on college resources than offering a centrally devised course but he felt that this was offset by the ability which a college now had to react quickly and flexibly to meet local demands . |
| 21 | You often had to wait here while the Edinburgh trains came and went , but the delay did n't usually last this long . |
| 22 | I always found the night duties a great strain , and often had to walk up and down outside to clear my head with some fresh air . |
| 23 | What steps is he taking to ensure that this year local authorities such as Southwark , which a week or two ago had paid less than one fifth of its mandatory grant cheques to eligible students , pay up , so as to minimise student hardship ? |
| 24 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 25 | La Clemenza di Tito is one of the last of the opere serie , a genre which by then had fallen more or less totally out of fashion . |
| 26 | With 9 men , Swindon then had to hold out and hold Brentford off . |
| 27 | We were blindfolded and then had to move back until we bent our knees . |
| 28 | We did it inside and then had to go outside cos it was raining . |
| 29 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 30 | Well it was a wee bit under because I was only an office clerk , I , I was n't the junior but by then had come there and there were other , other clerks , some girls who 'd come into the office and I 'd got a little bit of step up you see and took over a little bit more important work , erm , I did just before I went in the Army have a dabble at erm running times , that was preparing the schedules for buses . |