Example sentences of "that [pron] had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 2 | I think that everyone had to be rescued by a motor boat as we drifted helplessly around , vainly splashing at the water with these pieces of wood . |
| 3 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 4 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 7 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 8 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 9 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 11 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 12 | I also remember , incidentally , the first letter that I had to erm type , a young chap who was erm shortly called up for service in the Army came in and erm dictated a little letter to me to see how erm , how I got on and erm it was a letter to parents in Halesworth whose daughter had just been er transferred to a grammar school and erm in those days of course the , if the distance was more than three miles the Education Committee er provided a cycle and cape and leggings and erm the object of the letter was to find out the child 's inside leg measurement |
| 13 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 14 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 15 | The government was quite content , in essence , to use inflation as a weapon of war : somebody had to bear the costs , and apart from those assessed for the new Income Tax of 1799 , that somebody had to be the consumer . |
| 16 | ‘ I had this thing in my mind that she had to be in a place where I could get to her and she would be well looked after . ’ |
| 17 | Much to the prince 's disgust the captain of the Du Teillay refused to join in the action for fear of endangering his passenger 's life , but the Elisabeth suffered 57 killed and 176 wounded and such serious damage that she had to be sent back to Brest , taking with her her precious cargo of arms and French volunteers . |
| 18 | But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again . |
| 19 | The vet said that nothing could be done to save her and that she had to be put down . |
| 20 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 21 | As it was , she went down so badly with flu that she had to be confined to her room for the duration . |
| 22 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 23 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 24 | Buzz sensed that she had to be careful , she had to box clever , she had to let Adam think she had accepted what he said and would go quietly . |
| 25 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 26 | The girl became so ill that she had to be taken away . |
| 27 | It had been bad enough lying to Piers , leaving him because she knew that she had to , however much she disliked it , but to while away her time here , doing nothing but mulling over past events , was a recipe for misery . |
| 28 | Over the next couple of days she discovered that she had to be careful not to think about Luke Scott . |
| 29 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 30 | While at the city 's Royal Hospital , he took a detour to the maternity ward , where he caused one woman to laugh so much that she had to be whisked away quickly for a premature birth . |