Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ So this was an order and so I had to and a young woman opened the door — about eighteen years . |
| 2 | So I had to s stop in the gate and mark tubs for two . |
| 3 | So I had to they said oh you were the shop steward . |
| 4 | Yeah , it 's absolutely wonderful , it really is I mean then , so I had to cakes and so on there and |
| 5 | So I had to be a bear till I got to the top of the mountain and then you have to look round to see , I wonder whether , who were those girls who were messing around over there ca n't stand that , mm , do something with them |
| 6 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 7 | But as soon as the combine came in I had to be very careful with them . |
| 8 | Another used sweet saffron leaves , baked to dry and fed in the same way : ‘ Only you had to be some careful not to give the horse too much of the powder or else the sweat would bring it out and you could smell the herb on his coat . ’ |
| 9 | of course he got all upset so she had to then mess about and try and get him to sleep , which apparently she did |
| 10 | So you had to be pretty sure of your ground . |
| 11 | So you had to be careful of him . |
| 12 | So you had to be sharp . |
| 13 | So you had to be pally so that your owners help one another . |
| 14 | And and things settled nice and quietly and all the blue lights come flying down here , and so we had to they was about to chop down this blokes door and we said , Whoa whoa whoa . |
| 15 | So we had to as soon as they come we had to open a trench and heel them in do you see . |
| 16 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 17 | So we had to as far as all the schools and colleges were concerned erm there was a previous Council agreement that erm increments , that is the progression of Council employees through their salary scales , that had to be funded from what we call base budgets this year , so the budgets of the the delegated budgets of schools had to erm bear that cost along with everybody else . |
| 18 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 19 | So they had to , the they were purely working for themselves ? |
| 20 | Naturally it had to be washed off after the show before outdoor clothes were put on . |
| 21 | So it had to be closed . |
| 22 | So it had to be . |
| 23 | He kindly gave me a lift home en route to get his bike : he had a nasty fall off it last week and so it had to be repaired . |
| 24 | Oh I think there 's no doubt about that and also their their their wages were low in the beginning you know and and their their their hard work that they 've put into it for the last you know I mean it had it I mean David Price says at the best of times is not easy to run a quarry you know you know and they they ha all work in a quarry so it had to be a cooperation and you know the management said you come up with us and and they were n't complaining actually about the wages it was quite good wages for . |
| 25 | So it had to be photocopied |
| 26 | so it had to be photocopied |
| 27 | That was first thing in the morning , at two o'clock he had to be brought home . |
| 28 | She got me she had to kiss me on the arse she fucking she had to be there thirty seconds to get the points and I farted at about ten seconds |
| 29 | He felt it a boring thing he had to do as he would probably rather do something else but nevertheless it had to be done , not to save his reputation but restore his self-respect which he felt he did not have fully if someone was allowed to insult him and get away with it . |
| 30 | Thus it had to be photocopied — an expensive and time consuming activity — and its quality varied considerably . |