Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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1 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
2 | Only about fifty children actually had to be removed from their foster homes . |
3 | Joseph Bédier , the French scholar whose book published exactly a hundred years ago proved to be the inception of modern fabliau studies , inferred from the number of known authors and the number of anonymous fabliaux that only about one-eighth of the original corpus survives . |
4 | Nine hundred pounds still had to be paid . |
5 | A few boys asked her out but never the right ones , never the ones she wanted to ask her , and Sally began to wonder how two people ever came to be in love with one another at the same time . |
6 | The two counties also happened to be playing a 2nd XI match at Stratford , where Cranmer made both his first and last appearance as a Warwickshire 2nd XI player . |