Example sentences of "[vb past] that something had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ The club realised that something had to be done . |
| 3 | Most people acknowledged that something had to be done , but Congress continued to drag its heels . |
| 4 | It was in 1972 , when I was twenty-five , that I decided that something had to be done . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They said that something had to be done to put right the mess which the Government had made of the Self-Governing Schools etc . |