Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] have to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some years later , when her health and strength failed her , she found that she had to ; but when that day came , she packed her courage as well as her clothes into her suitcase . |
| 2 | And why the problems there is that any sort of loud music was actually buried under the auditorial I mean that was the problem that occurred and we had to sort of tone it down a bit . |
| 3 | One swam because one had to . |
| 4 | On the one hand , business leaders agreed that something had to be done to the health-care system because the cost of covering their workers was eroding their profits . |
| 5 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |
| 6 | She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return . |
| 7 | Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going . |
| 8 | Heterosexual feminists argued that we had to be taken seriously as women , and if the media got away with the label of lesbians , then ‘ the women out there ’ would be alienated . |
| 9 | The NEC believed that there had to be changes and had already begun wide-ranging consultations . |
| 10 | I stipulated that it had to be different from mine . |
| 11 | It seemed that everyone had to be classified according to height and weight so that they would compete against boys of roughly the same size in the school sports at the end of the year . |
| 12 | It seemed that there had to be some medium throughout space through which the light traveled . |
| 13 | Most people acknowledged that something had to be done , but Congress continued to drag its heels . |
| 14 | Over the next couple of days she discovered that she had to be careful not to think about Luke Scott . |
| 15 | Paige pushed the thought away ; until the day dawned that she had to she refused to contemplate it . |
| 16 | This woman would be the one in the attic , the one nobody paid for , the one they fed because they had to and treated like filth because she did n't seem to notice or care . |
| 17 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 18 | At the end of the war the Buckinghams decided that something had to be done ; not Mrs Buckingham , who was still repining , but Harriet 's vast web of paternal relations . |
| 19 | ‘ It was then I decided that there had to be a market out there for an ironing service for professional women — and this has very much proved to be the case . ’ |
| 20 | Taylor and his managers decided that it had to be ‘ double or quits ’ if the business was to be a success . |
| 21 | He tried to stand but collapsed and he had to be dragged to the Headmaster . |
| 22 | Although the seriousness of the crime meant that the youths had been tried as adults , the fact that all were under 16 years of age at the time of the attack ( April 1989 ) meant that they had to be sentenced as juveniles . |
| 23 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 24 | Fortunately it became necessary for me to accompany the well-known Solveig 's Song on a dulcitone , which meant that I had to be close beside her in the wings . |
| 25 | Her strong competitive streak also meant that she had to be the most outrageous , the most rebellious and the most indisciplined girl in school . |
| 26 | Similarly , inadequate information about the siting of the jetty at Rothera meant that it had to be redesigned and repositioned at a relatively late stage , at an additional cost of £2 million . |
| 27 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 28 | Reformers knew that the peasant commune stood in the way of economic diversification in the countryside , but felt that it had to be retained because it served to protect the interests of peasants against those of outsiders . |
| 29 | ‘ Whilst recognising that staff in other parts of AEA would undoubtedly be more concerned , he and his colleagues in the UK and overseas subsidiaries knew that they had to ‘ Keep their eye on the ball , push ahead with product development , sell hard and achieve their demanding targets for growth . ’ |
| 30 | If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline . |