Example sentences of "i had to be " 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 dreaming . |
| 4 | Now I had to be on my guard against AIDS and the Devil . |
| 5 | ‘ I had to be a part of it ’ , he says . |
| 6 | I had to be told which character was Chaplin ; he was so old and looked nothing like the silent comic I knew so well . |
| 7 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to be in charge , ’ he later said , ‘ when it came to the actual making of the films . |
| 9 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 10 | I felt like I had to be in a group . ’ |
| 11 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 12 | Unfortunately the powerful television lights kept melting the glue , and in spite of extra large dollops of the stuff , the G from ‘ Winning ’ fell off every night and I had to be up a ladder fixing it back again at six the next morning . |
| 13 | So once I had passed through the obligatory outskirts of post-war , multi-storey housing estates and entered a labyrinth of blackened buildings in canyon-like streets with traffic jammed solid , I knew I had to be somewhere near the town centre . |
| 14 | ‘ At the bridge table I had to be a killer , ’ she would recall with a sigh . |
| 15 | I had to work a bit to keep up with him — the path is not as straight as the road ; also I had to be careful not to make a noise . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Somehow , I had to be worthy of this sacrifice ; to make my life count , if only a little . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh yes — I told Alison I could n't come , I had to be with Marcus . ’ |
| 19 | Unfortunately the op went wrong and I had to be readmitted . |
| 20 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 21 | ‘ I had to be sure . |
| 22 | Gradually the time was increased , though I had to be careful not to ask for too much . |
| 23 | I had to be careful in the recording . ’ |
| 24 | They let me off at four in the morning and I had to be in court by nine . |
| 25 | But I had to be back before dark still , and in the fairly late afternoon I had to change buses at Hyde Park Corner . |
| 26 | Then I had to be honest , and say that I could not guarantee to work for longer than four months . |
| 27 | I had never met her American , but of course with my prejudices I had to be on Henry 's side , and I was therefore not much help to her . |
| 28 | ‘ I knew I had to be tolerant of any mechanical faults which were bound to surface during the year , ’ he says . |
| 29 | As the curtain came down , I had to be physically shaken by a member of the cast in order to bring me down , so engrossed was I in my role , something which was almost entirely due to Karajan 's extraordinary sympathy and understanding ! |
| 30 | If the race had been over 62 metres then I felt I would have won , but there are no championships at this distance so I had to be content with second place . |