Example sentences of "[vb past] we had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We realised we had to be able to rely on good raw ingredients — that 's why we started farming . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I would have preferred to have given them a run chase but I then decided we had to be positive and get whatever we could out of the match , ’ said Moxon . |
| 3 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 4 | Back in Britain writing my last newsletter to the Group in Scotland I had loved and brought together , I said that I thought we had to be much bolder , taking an a priori stance on the fact that there could be no discrimination against women . |
| 5 | She looked so much better than the fat , spreading South London mothers around us , that I thought we had to be middle class . |