Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] have to " in BNC.
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| 31 | George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind . |
| 32 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |
| 33 | I knew that there had to be a wound : she had not been drowned or strangled or poisoned . |
| 34 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 35 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 36 | Well I did think about it but the Careers Officer advised me no cos he thought that you have to be really really good before y get in and he asked me if I thought I was really good and I said that well I was not too bad but and he said that he thought it would be better to concentrate on something else . |
| 37 | I never thought that it had to be a ‘ rule ’ . ’ |
| 38 | I felt like I had to be in a group . ’ |
| 39 | understand why all the agencies involved identify four in those circumstances I think in R A Southern Water district to themselves , because we 've got that information repeated across the county erm and it seemed to me important that erm somebody er accepted responsibility for taking an overall view of the circumstances to er merely because of course we can only concern ourselves with manmade er circumstances rather than er erm but I think you know members would agree that as a strategic planning authority , we appear to be the only auth er the only body which can erm in the cold light of day we view the circumstances look at the implications for strategic planning and local planning and the suggestion of those developments and obviously that would be a concern to us and er I felt and I have to that it is an area of responsibility erm which er within the of this |
| 40 | He went because he had to , leaving his farm for 28 days to live day and night in the bush , protecting the African villages from raiders armed with Chinese weapons . |
| 41 | And then he remembered that it had to be borne , that there was no other choice , and that there would be no escape from this place . |
| 42 | We did as we had to . |
| 43 | We did as we had to . |
| 44 | We did as we had to … |
| 45 | I just asked whether it had to be done in here , while I 'm eating . ’ |
| 46 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |
| 47 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 48 | In Lawrence [ 1982 ] AC 510 , Lord Diplock said that there had to be an obvious and serious risk of some physical harm or substantial damage to property in relation to reckless driving and causing death by reckless driving . |
| 49 | Council leader John Williams ( Lab ) said that there had to be strict conditions . |
| 50 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 51 | SCHOOLS Minister Michael Fallon yesterday denied that there had to be any cuts in the education budget in Northumberland . |
| 52 | For its part , the Phnom Penh government insisted that the " obstacle " of the former ruler must not be allowed to hold up the peace process , and denied that he had to be SNC chair under September 's Jakarta agreement on setting up the SNC . |
| 53 | It was Monday when we left and we had to be out of Debenham by quarter to seven in the morning . |
| 54 | cos he did n't know but you did he said and you have to ge , when yo can you come round is tha |
| 55 | But he calculated that it had to be worth it , that such casualties would be minor compared with those which would result from a prolonged , slogging , hand-to-hand battle . |
| 56 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 57 | The Divisional Court , presided over by the Lord Chief Justice , Lord Parker , emphasized that there had to be a ‘ real possibility ’ of a breach of the peace , but went on to find that just such a situation of menace existed here : eighteen people ‘ milling about ’ when there were only eight people in the works created a ‘ real danger of something more than mere picketing ’ . |