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 .
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