Example sentences of "[pers pn] just had to be " 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 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We just had to be or my centenary Open was going to be short-lived indeed ! |
| 6 | They just had to be there and play well and perform well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It just had to be gone through . |
| 10 | Yes , it just had to be — a Mr Cutting . |
| 11 | As for the lads — it just had to be those gorgeously groomed guys Jason Priestly and Luke Perry , stars of Beverly Hills 90210 . |
| 12 | It just had to be upfront and radical . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It just had to be this year , when Anthony was champion , that they did n't . |
| 15 | 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 . |