Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Suddenly she wanted to be dressed , and out , and running . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | So you had to be pretty sure of your ground . |
| 5 | So you had to be careful of him . |
| 6 | So you had to be sharp . |
| 7 | So you had to be pally so that your owners help one another . |
| 8 | Almost constantly she longed to be like ordinary-looking girls and have a fellow , even if , like most attachments on the station , it was only a temporary affair . |
| 9 | It was extraordinary , but suddenly we seemed to be on quite different terms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They said twelve , but I think really for the humour alone they needed to be about fifteen or sixteen because they did n't understand it . |
| 12 | Suddenly he seemed to be standing very close to the bed . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Bob , remembering from his childhood just how much it hurt to be punched on the nose . |
| 14 | How we used to look forward to it and how long it seemed to be in coming . |
| 15 | Naturally it had to be washed off after the show before outdoor clothes were put on . |
| 16 | Perhaps he ceased to be useful to her once she 'd had some success in England — I do n't know . |
| 17 | If he ca n't afford a Solicitor and he feels he ought to be represented by a Solicitor , he may apply for Legal Aid , and of course it 's public money concerned so I suppose in an ideal society everybody would be legally assisted who wanted to be , but obviously we ca n't afford that as a country , so that erm generally erm his application would be judged according to certain criteria erm which would suggest perhaps he needed to be represented . |
| 18 | From these reports , it seems that Huntingford at least was not satisfied that Vial was all he claimed to be . |
| 19 | Paul next door left school , you know , he cou all he wanted to be was a mechanic , it 's , it 's all he 's ever been , he 's really good . |
| 20 | Erm , had , he was very happy with it , and he was so happy that he tossed up , obviously it turned to be inexpendible small child , erm , who was promptly decapitated by this fan , which is , I mean , it 's a terrible story . |
| 21 | So he studied to be a doctor , and went out to India . |
| 22 | So he ordered to be brought to him the finest silk cloth and brilliant threads , and made for pleasure what he had once needed to make for harsh necessity . |
| 23 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 24 | So it had to be closed . |
| 25 | So it had to be . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So it had to be photocopied |
| 29 | so it had to be photocopied |
| 30 | So it began to be asserted that this was a social service , and that there was something inherently reasonable and even laudable about subsidising the price of rented house-room — though how it could be reasonable or laudable to reduce by arbitrary and locally varying amounts the rents of an arbitrarily selected minority of families who have no common economic or other characteristic , is something which no one to this day has attempted to explain . |