Example sentences of "i had to be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to be rid of them , I decided . |
| 2 | I had to be rid of the English boy . |
| 3 | I had to be escorted because the curfew was on and the village was heavily guarded . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the op went wrong and I had to be readmitted . |
| 5 | In order to have my clothing coupons replaced I had to be vouched for by a responsible person , and Leslie 's uncle , who was a K.C. and Sheriff-Substitute of Fife and Kinross , kindly did this for me . |
| 6 | I had to be dragged outside . |
| 7 | I would have some idiot life in another country because some medieval cleric in Iran decided I had to be killed . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 9 | By the second night I had to be scraped from the floor and dragged two miles to the only shop in the vicinity to buy something which could pass as edible . |
| 10 | A little late in the day as it happened , but they did and one of the things that helped was the fact that as an Irish citizen I had to be entered on the aliens ’ register by the local police and that required a passport photo . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I had to be occupied , it 's so demoralizing just waiting around . |
| 12 | As a child , I had to be held down to get my flu vaccination . |
| 13 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 14 | After Charlie was carried off the aircraft , it was unable to even taxi and I had to be towed off the runway . |
| 15 | I had to be carted off to hospital , so I did n't manage to complete the work until the new year . |
| 16 | I had to be carted off to hospital , so I did n't manage to complete the work until the new year . |
| 17 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 18 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 19 | Right , I was subject to a , an assault that was quite frightening erm in that I was working in a shop on my own and er someone came into the shop and locked the door behind me and tried er to pull me down towards the back of the shop and er apart from being very frightened I find it difficult to accept that I was just an innocent victim , I kept making excuses that this person who did it to me did n't mean to frighten me he , only could n't communicate that he , he , he said it eventually when I managed to fight him off he said , I just wanted to give you a kiss and er I find it very difficult and I had to be forced to go to the police erm to tell them about this because I thought you know its just a misunderstanding and , but it was terrifying |
| 20 | I was on the borderline between a first- and second-class degree , and I had to be interviewed by the examiners to determine which I should get . |
| 21 | However , in the winter months , on a roof top it was cold and I had to be wrapped in blankets , even though the sun beat down mid afternoon . |
| 22 | and there was another one across the way and she was deteriorating , she was getting nervous right there , see if I had to be brought away you know |
| 23 | First I had to be cleansed — this meant drinking a lot of medicated water and throwing it up again . |
| 24 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 25 | It was ( I had to be told ) a clavichord . |