Example sentences of "[coord] they had to [be] " in BNC.

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1 The West Country 's joy at being able to combine quality and tradition in the shape of brand-new brown-and-cream-liveried bus-based four-wheeled diesel units for local branch services turned to dismay when their long wheelbase caused ear-splitting squeals on tight curves , and they had to be rapidly replaced by the thirty-year-old DMUs they had supplanted , fortunately not yet scrapped .
2 With the tension reaching boiling point , it was finally announced that the French officials had allowed the result to stand and they had to be applauded for a sporting decision .
3 They were not chromium-plated and they had to be cleaned regularly , every day .
4 This led to blows on the set and they had to be separated by actor Alan Hale .
5 But his secretiveness extended to not even telling them that , and they had to be content to accompany him as he turned left at the foot of the steps that led up to the station entrance and headed for the quays .
6 An and they had to be fed .
7 The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed ; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends , population forecasts and traffic growth .
8 And they had to be the bearings had to be either you had to have a s a set ready at all times sort of thing you know so a spare set .
9 And the horses well they they 're the worst to ship some were really bad and they had to be severely tied .
10 There was neither an immediate protestation nor confirmation from Charlie ; then he said , ‘ No ; I have never wanted anyone else ; but that 's not to say I 've never had needs , and they had to be met .
11 That 's not to say I have n't had needs , and they had to be met , she thought .
12 I had to I had to lay the table and they had to be laid spick and span you know .
13 I taped Louise and and they had to be .
14 , but Benguiat took it as like a threat to and went after him in the lobby of hall and they had to be prised apart .
15 A different one every week but they had to be believable .
16 Life was hell for unsuccessful acts ; not only did the performers have to put up with heckling and catcalls but they had to be agile enough to duck the rotten eggs and fruit thrown by a disgruntled audience .
17 The various houses hid as much Champagne as they dared by sealing up some of their cellars , but they had to be very careful not to attract attention .
18 The three cars on the Crystal Palace route were sold to Cohen 's at Thornton Heath depôt on 12 October 1935 and were to be broken up at Hampstead depôt , but they had to be held back until Crystal Palace route closed belatedly on 8 February 1936 , when presumably they were broken up in Penge depôt with the South Metropolitan cars .
19 But they had to be cheap .
20 It 's the only time there were ever arguments over scripts , but they had to be said .
21 But they had to be humoured before they could be diverted from the unobtainable to the treasure that was actually for sale .
22 But they had to be , she knew , or the relationship would destroy them .
23 wh I remember that when I was at home it was a mixed sort of meeting in which some of the people from the village were coming who you did n't really know but they had to be asked
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