Example sentences of "be [Wh adv] [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But that 's how it had got to be in the early days , otherwise it would have cost more to run than I took . |
2 | That 's how you had to do it ? |
3 | That 's when I had to put these things onto dea er put death certificates into th their the doctor 's certificate into English , erm they were pretty good , t others were n't so g , er you know , were n't so good . |
4 | That 's when he had lost his temper . |
5 | S. H. The worst part of the job is when you had to go round that beat at four o'clock in the morning and it 's teeming with rain . |
6 | From 1924 my father intended to write a major work about his friend and that is why he had asked Modigliani 's mother to supply him with all possible information about his childhood and adolescence . |
7 | That is why he had suggested that he should be known as Possum . |
8 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
9 | That is why I had to take the call . |
10 | We landed in Bangkok this is where we had to change planes , there was about an hour and a half wait so we had plenty of time to look around the duty free . |
11 | This is where I had arranged to meet Paul Cadd ( fellow DECcie ) . |
12 | Cos that 's why they had to move out of this house in the first |
13 | That 's why they had given him his Wings . |
14 | Ma told me he killed a man once and that 's why they had to leave Ireland . |
15 | That 's why they had torn down the children 's hospital to make room for the miniature golf course . |
16 | No that 's all we 've got , that 's why we had to get some . |
17 | that 's why we had to get him out because it was n't gon na help him ! |
18 | ‘ Well , that 's why he had to take the money last night , then ! |
19 | Yes so that 's why she had to have a doctor for that one . |
20 | Still , he 's a married man , and his wife is in her seventh month , from what I hear : that 's why she had to send her apologies at the last moment … |
21 | And that 's why you had to rush back here — alone . |
22 | That 's why I had to leave , man , that 's why I had to get free . |
23 | No , no , because passed it over to us that 's why I had to go and see the guy if you remember |
24 | That 's why I had to leave , man , that 's why I had to get free . |
25 | That 's why I had to find out who James Worsdale was . ’ |
26 | But I could be wrong , too , that 's why I had to hand it over to you . ’ |
27 | I guessed that 's where he had gone . ’ |
28 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
29 | Crookes took up Faraday 's work on the passage of electricity through gases , and was excited by a passage in an early lecture of Faraday 's where he had speculated that there might be a ‘ fourth state of matter ’ simpler than the gaseous , just as gases are simpler than liquids ; they all expand alike when heated , for example . |
30 | So that 's where he had disappeared to , Duncan thought . |