Example sentences of "[verb] [coord] had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of dying by the age of about 40 , more were living to an age at which they could not continue to work and had to be supported . |
| 2 | Some were catapulted out of smashed windows , while others were trapped and had to be cut free . |
| 3 | property uneconomical to repair and had to be demolished . |
| 4 | All the pumps were frozen and had to be freed with burning straw . |
| 5 | Even the original factory chimney was designed as an Egyptian obelisk , though this subsequently cracked and had to be replaced by something rather more conventionally Victorian . |
| 6 | To add to the problems , gas welding cylinders were in danger of exploding and had to be carried out by firemen and placed in water . |
| 7 | Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police . |
| 8 | Members of Spencers family began shouting and had to be restrained . |
| 9 | There was a bit of a fuss because a Crewe player was flat out on the ground injured and had to be carried off afterwards , but it was all over by that point anyway , really . |
| 10 | The driver of that car was injured and had to be cut free … two people in a second car which hit the transporter 's tractor unit are also hurt |
| 11 | ‘ The original walls were so badly damaged they could not be saved and had to be pulled down because the stone had become non load-bearing . |
| 12 | They used to cost about two hundred pounds in those days and that was a heck of a sum in those days you know that sort of thing , how much they cost and had to be careful of them and all that . |
| 13 | Aline choked and had to be banged on the back . |
| 14 | Oliver choked and had to be thumped on the back . |
| 15 | Experience has shown that anomalies arose and had to be addressed and that caused massive administrative complications . |
| 16 | Nestorius himself refused to attend and had to be given protection by imperial troops . |
| 17 | Several items Iris had arranged to be flown in proved to have been wrongly listed and had to be sent back . |
| 18 | But by the time they were back in Hollywood to do interiors at Paramount Studios , she deteriorated and had to be replaced by Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 19 | Five of the 50 cartons were damaged and had to be returned to a workshop in Essex for repair . |
| 20 | Notre Dame in Paris suffered greatly in the Revolution of 1789 when much of its sculpture was badly damaged and had to be replaced by Viollet-le-Duc and others . |
| 21 | The railway 's team crane , which was part of a demonstration goods train at the time , turned from game-keeper to poacher as it became derailed and had to be rescued by another crane . |
| 22 | Two of his new windows , big ones , have warped and had to be redone . |
| 23 | Success rates were higher when names of shapes were provided and had to be matched with pictures of real objects in the forms of a cylinder , prism , cuboid and some pyramids . |
| 24 | The aircraft were ranged on the decks before dawn , but on ‘ Furious ’ the first Fulmar failed to start and had to be put below . |
| 25 | Hurieh El Darrawish , pregnant and suffering from renal colic and anaemia , was threatened with rape and beaten until she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital . |
| 26 | Adopted without a vote on Nov. 22 , part B of Resolution 44/27 expressed the conviction that the system of apartheid could not be reformed and had to be eliminated , leading to the establishment of a united , non-racial and democratic South Africa . |
| 27 | The ground was cropped until it was exhausted and had to be left for a few years to recuperate . |
| 28 | The tap connections needed to be changed , the old wall brackets did n't match and had to be replaced and , finally , the tiled surround shaped carefully around the original basin now had unsightly gaps and needed retiling . |
| 29 | Assembling slaves required capital , or at least credit , to get started , and the slaves had to be trained and had to be watched in case they rebelled . |
| 30 | Even in his defence of Needham , Dr Chapman admits that at one mill more than a third of the apprentices died , absconded or had to be returned and only two out of 780 apprentices recruited were later employed as adult workers . |