Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just had to be patient , it was one of those things . |
| 2 | Only time would tell now whether it would go without mishap I just had to be patient . |
| 3 | I just had to . " |
| 4 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 5 | I always had to be polite and caring . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm really sorry David and I both had to be away . |
| 7 | In consequence , according to the rule book , I now had to be taken seriously . |
| 8 | I had learnt , however , never to tell them much , to keep the best parts hidden , as indeed I often had to . |
| 9 | This , however , caused me untold problems , as I then had to ‘ answer ’ to the officer and see a tutor at the nursing school to explain the reason for such criticism . |
| 10 | Well as I actually had to going round the corner , to get myself round the corner , I had to come off the brake and onto the accelerator |
| 11 | I never had to . |
| 12 | I refused to settle for second best , unless I absolutely had to , ’ she says . |
| 13 | In any case , it was concerned only with slum housing which eventually had to be cleared . |
| 14 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 15 | Then the gong sounded for tea , which somehow had to be endured , the shrimps shelled , the bread buttered , the milk and tea poured into the cups , Victoria 's cake to be cut into fingers so that she could eat it all up . |
| 16 | The antique and classic park included much to interest the enthusiast , with bucket loads of Stearmen and Staggerwings , all manner of Ryan , Waco , Stinson and Cessna variants , oddest of which just had to be the Waco ZVN–8 N1937S , a 1938 built biplane with tricycle undercarriage ! |
| 17 | The mother was just out of sight around the corner in the kitchen making Mr Wormwood 's breakfast which always had to be two fried eggs on fried bread with three pork sausages and three strips of bacon and some fried tomatoes . |
| 18 | Nigel was , by this time , unable to do much in the way of hulking and heaving , owing to having suffered from the fashionable slipped disc eighteen years earlier , which still had to be watched . |
| 19 | The agreement , which still had to be endorsed by local chiefs , left central Bougainville as the only area where government services had yet to be restored . |
| 20 | ‘ John Brown , for example , was immense throughout the last 15 minutes of the match , which also had to be the longest of my life , ’ he stated . |
| 21 | A plaque on a courtyard wall pays tribute to his defence of the castle , which collapsed only when cannon on loan from Elizabeth devastated the main east front , which later had to be entirely rebuilt . |
| 22 | The sulphur was burned off , thus producing a lead oxide which then had to be reduced leaving behind the pure lead . |
| 23 | It required sewing together , then cropping , scouring with just enough caustic soda so that the fabric would not tear , and bleaching with peroxide , which then had to be well washed out . |
| 24 | Thus we have already seen that the provision of ( hardware ) index registers provides a facility ( instruction modification ) which previously had to be provided by software , and the interrupt facility is the hardware equivalent of scattering transput test instructions through a program . |
| 25 | The Soviet Union regarded the American refusal critically and predictably withdrew the offer of coal to the south , which instead had to be supplied from Japan . |
| 26 | At a period when Residents had no clerks and were lucky if they possessed a typewriter , Lugard was listing some thirty different sets of records which either had to be kept or sent in , dealing with every conceivable aspect of a fully developed civil administration from postal matters to canoe registration . |
| 27 | I 'd have liked a job but you could n't , because the men had to be looked after , you just had to be there . |
| 28 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |
| 29 | and this Molly she always had to be different |
| 30 | It was it was fun when we first started , because the weather was nice , you know it was er you c take a thermos up and have a picnic and sit in the chair and read a book or whatever if there was no one around , but after a while when it became a duty , yeah it was hard work getting up on a winter 's morning , knowing full well that you probably would n't see any cars if you down in until about ten in the morning , but you still had to be there at seven o'clock , and honking it down with rain or whatever . |