Example sentences of "that i had [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as I set foot in there , I knew that I had to be involved somehow . |
| 2 | My mental health has deteriorated to such an extent that I had to be admitted to hospital and am currently on sedation . |
| 3 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Now Bathsheba , ’ he said , laughing , ‘ you know very well that I had to be very careful , as a single man working for you , a good-looking young woman . |
| 6 | I was experiencing what he meant ; a new self-acceptance , a sense that I had to be this mind and this body , its vices and its virtues , and that I had no other chance or choice . |
| 7 | Ah but I believed if I 'm going to discuss or argue about anything as regarding that I had to be interested in it . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew that I had to be the best at everything if I was to haul my family out of the financial trouble they were in . |
| 9 | ‘ The variety of work which included anything from milk quotas to mortgage repossessions , meant that I had to be practical and adapt quickly . |
| 10 | ‘ Generally that I had to be convinced any person posed a risk — and to give a warning before I fired . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |