Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing there — men had to make their own markers or monuments , and eventually they had to build an entire landscape of monuments . |
| 2 | He also had difficulty remembering his lines , and eventually I had to write his lines on boards , on bottles , on door frames — anything he had to pass by or pick up . |
| 3 | She was quite happy to let me do my survey and eventually I had to make my excuses or she would have gone on chatting all day . |
| 4 | This story did not impress the court who took the view that she had used a knife to cut off the head soon after its birth , and eventually she had to admit the truth . |
| 5 | It played on his mind for a time and eventually he had to work out a kind of therapy to get her out of his brain . |
| 6 | And slowly he had extended his grip . |
| 7 | And fundamentally nothing had changed . |
| 8 | And grimly he had retorted , ‘ Well , you know what that 'll drive me to . ’ |
| 9 | But that was good — not six o'clock yet — Dr Graham might still be at his office And suddenly I had to act quickly . |
| 10 | In the car the contractions had started and suddenly she had felt excited . |
| 11 | I garden organically and use no chemicals , and so what had happened to them ? |
| 12 | Once they 'd done with our , figures and our faces then we 'd got to look for our innards and so we had had to have inner cleanliness . |
| 13 | the flat in , in London , the flat we came from and so we had accumulated a little more furniture than one would usually have in two rooms and the kitchen and we got here and were allowed to spread ourselves , if there 's one criticism that one could say about this house , is that the size of the rooms confines you to what you put in them , they 're square , that the , the division between the living room and the dining room is through a pair of glass doors , where perhaps that could of been arranged with either sliding doors or some other feature so as not to separate it yet again into two square boxes and erm |
| 14 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 15 | That became even more apparent when the second script came in , and so we had to drop it . |
| 16 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 17 | Fans , yes , no , , building , you know , , and then the , they made trouble again and then for every down they did n't pull something down and so they had to pay oh so many er thousands . |
| 18 | but it went ; because half the people turned out to hate the other half and so everybody had to strive like anything to make things go . |
| 19 | Our first problem was one the water was quite cold and so everyone had to find a wet suit to fit them , which caused a slight problem . |
| 20 | The householder claimed that the burglar had jumped him in the dark and so he had stabbed him . |
| 21 | The Shah said that he loved Soraya but the demands of monarchy meant that he must have an heir and so he had to sacrifice his love . |
| 22 | They reported that there was no difference between the first three prize-winners , and so he had appointed Scott because of the genius loci . |
| 23 | The idea that the SLD exists to replace Labour carries little conviction , and so he had to bow to those of his followers who advocate an outright anti-Thatcher stance . |
| 24 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 25 | the other one , but even though it opens outwards , a bit comes in and a bit comes out and so he had to chip away at the |
| 26 | Lambert strained to force it back but the controls insisted on turning for home , and so he had to slip past the balloon , all plump and shining grey , soon to be on the ground . |
| 27 | And so he had acquired an old-fashioned classical education , with gaps where teachers had been made redundant or classroom chaos had reigned . |
| 28 | We had to catch the man doing something criminal , and so I had to put Sir Henry in danger . |
| 29 | Anyway , one day I had tickets to see Mike Oldfield and I was really upset because we had these gigs and so I had to sell them . |
| 30 | And so I had to do what I could ; I … |