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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We just had to go up and see him and |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | We just had to sit there and ride through the flak . |
| 9 | The local people who were unemployed just had to sit there and look out of their windows at others doing work they desperately wanted . ’ |
| 10 | Up until the solo I just had to think constantly as I was playing . |
| 11 | The only person more surprised than me was Ken , who just had to follow along as best he could . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When the article was produced , he already had had more than 40 years service with the Scottish Amicable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Though the space was suddenly there for us , we still had to come forward and claim it . |
| 16 | They had made an exception , but she still had to come in and read it . |
| 17 | ‘ And of course I always had to argue instead and make things worse . ’ |
| 18 | He always had to leave off before he came , feeling sure his head would burst otherwise . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You often had to wait here while the Edinburgh trains came and went , but the delay did n't usually last this long . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | With 9 men , Swindon then had to hold out and hold Brentford off . |
| 26 | We were blindfolded and then had to move back until we bent our knees . |
| 27 | We did it inside and then had to go outside cos it was raining . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Police Sergeant Herbert Thorpe said that Drew had walked into the station and reported that trousers he had lost earlier had shown up and that he wanted the sergeant to inspect them . |