Example sentences of "then [pers pn] had to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 2 | ‘ I decided then I had to be fit and hungry when I next played . |
| 3 | Erm used to go down to weddings , at the register office on a Saturday morning , and hope that they 'd turn up without witnesses , because then you had to be compensated , , for giving your service . |
| 4 | And then you had to be quick at it you know . |
| 5 | If this was not possible , then they had to be placed as ‘ hands ’ on conventional farms where they were close enough together to meet in the evenings with their Madrichim ( group counsellors ) for cultural communion . |
| 6 | Then they had to be able to build a nest for the night . |
| 7 | And then they had to be a for a certain length of time before they would be a master joiner . |
| 8 | The steel tape had to be cut with wire-cutters , then soldered , and then it had to be ‘ tempered ’ before it could run through the machine — which it did with a loud clang ! |
| 9 | Then it had to be washed ( to remove the carpet fluff from the cream ) . |
| 10 | Then it had to be loaded up what they call long thin boards . |
| 11 | before she could have the tiles put on cos then it had to be skimmed and then the tiles put on . |
| 12 | If the king-duke could not be a dejure sovereign in his duchy of Aquitaine then he had to be made one de facto . |