Example sentences of "[pron] just 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 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 !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed !
9 One just had to be manly about it .
10 They just had to be there and play well and perform well .
11 But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer .
12 It did n't have to be colourless , tasteless or odourless , it just had to be got , somehow or other , past Elinor 's front teeth , down her oesophagus and into her digestive system , even if to do so it should be necessary to hold her down and clamp a funnel between her jaws .
13 It just had to be gone through .
14 Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting .
15 As for the lads — it just had to be those gorgeously groomed guys Jason Priestly and Luke Perry , stars of Beverly Hills 90210 .
16 It just had to be upfront and radical .
17 Feeling certain that her imagination was playing tricks on her , Fabia , who knew that Ven was still in Prague , saw that it just had to be that Lubor owned an exactly identical pair of shoes .
18 It just had to be this year , when Anthony was champion , that they did n't .
19 Richard Dreyfuss was booked one week and on the night of the show a confusion over dates and times led his film company to arrange a business call that linked up Los Angeles , London , Australia and New York and he just had to be there .
20 ‘ Poor Sammy had to hear it , he just had to .
21 Get granddad did have a look at his ears but erm he just had to dropped it erm
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