Example sentences of "and had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt as abject as a convalescent child and had to be helped up the three stone flights to his cell . |
| 2 | But you get in nowhere without a pass , applications for which are vetted by the Special Branch , and this year hundreds of passes went missing and had to be queued for . |
| 3 | A military career had fascinated the young Makarenko , though he disliked it and had to be discharged on account of poor eyesight . |
| 4 | Eliot wrote in 1916 that mythology was ‘ dangerous literary material ’ and had to be either a mythology in which the writer believed or else one in which a people had once believed . |
| 5 | I was six years old and had to be accompanied to the cinema by my two brothers [ five and seven ] . |
| 6 | He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract . |
| 7 | By 0930 they were all in their coaches for the long journey back to Brighton , for that evening they all became civilians again and had to be ready for their ordinary jobs on Monday . |
| 8 | But this sophisticated attempt to deal with exhibitor resistance to British films was ruled illegal by the US Justice Department in 1946 and had to be replaced by a less ambitious system , in which Rank 's films were sold on their merits . |
| 9 | The research commissioned by the Department of Energy was connected to the reactor and had to be abandoned . |
| 10 | She has a tendency to hug herself tightly when grappling with a question , and at one point , when I asked her how she saw herself in the future , grown up and faced with decisions about her own children , she panicked for an instant and had to be consoled by the female interpreter . |
| 11 | In long and complex cases delay was inevitable and had to be accepted , so why then , she asked , should that not be so in a simple case . |
| 12 | David was sacked from his very first job at Vic Furlongs Music Shop in Bromley ; he was working there whilst still at school but , as Vic describes , ‘ He was a day-dreamer and had to be gotten rid of . ’ |
| 13 | The personal element in the Anglo-American special relationship , which had been based on war-time partnership , started to crumble with the departure of Eisenhower from the White House , and had to be painstakingly rebuilt with the younger generation of American leaders . |
| 14 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 15 | They had got in through a cellar window at the back and made their way up to a small office on the third landing where , according to Cyril , the sole employee had been there man and boy until he became fossilized and had to be removed feet first from his station . |
| 16 | Contraceptives in Britain were still kept out of sight , even male ones , and had to be purchased rather furtively , like guilty secrets . |
| 17 | Once he actually fainted in the mud and had to be carried back to the house and revived with cold water . |
| 18 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 19 | Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police . |
| 20 | One of the ‘ cattle men ’ turned up one day at Costa Rica 's legitimate airport and had to be rescued by Fernandez : in his cattle-man 's briefcase were $5,000 in cash to pay for workers on the strip , a spare cassette from North for Fernandez 's KL-43 encrypting device , and brown manila envelopes from the White House containing photographs of Fernandez with Reagan . |
| 21 | In 1898 , six years after Spurgeon 's death , the building suffered a disastrous fire and had to be rebuilt . |
| 22 | In spite of many buckets of water , it gave up the struggle last summer and had to be cut down . |
| 23 | As Whitley describes in Gerald Durrell 's Army ( John Murray ) , the following day Durrell awoke with a raging fever and had to be airlifted to hospital . |
| 24 | There was a sad sequel when Combermere , who was in third place at the time , shattered a hind leg on landing over the penultimate fence and had to be destroyed . |
| 25 | She staggered back , and had to be steadied by Nina . |
| 26 | Hitler had hold to obtain air supremacy prior to his planned landings and invasion of Britain , but the British fighter pilots — later helped by Polish fighter pilots who had escaped from Poland and had to be trained to handle Spitfires and Hurricane fighter planes — were able to destroy so many German planes that any attempt to invade would have been disastrous . |
| 27 | IV Intelligence School who immediately made arrangements for a billet in nearby Linslade. from what he heard of the telephone conversation , Harold gathered that the billetor was unwilling to have a private soldier , and had to be persuaded that this particular specimen knew how to behave . |
| 28 | I was completely sunk to the knees and had to be pulled out with a squelch . |
| 29 | In the middle of Reverend Barr 's address a woman Maggie did n't recognize completely broke down and had to be led away . |
| 30 | For many Conservative MPs the message seemed all too clear : Mrs Thatcher was now an electoral liability and had to be replaced before the next election . |