Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Camille had to agree that it did seem preposterous that anybody they had known should be dead . |
| 2 | Berthon was livid at one of his cars being butchered but had to acknowledge that it handled better . |
| 3 | The company had to halt as it became impossible to make any progress through the press of bodies . |
| 4 | She felt even sorrier for him with that stammer when he went up to read the first lesson , and had to announce that it came from the eighth chapter of Deuteronomy , a word which took him four goes . |
| 5 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 6 | The categories of ‘ primary ’ and ‘ secondary ’ were not , however , abolished , and a Local Education Authority had to decide whether it wished a middle school to be ‘ deemed ’ to be primary or secondary . |
| 7 | He began to imagine how he would run the wires under the carpet , and had to stop before it became too real . |
| 8 | To this is often ( but not always ) added an idea that a cause makes its effect happen , implying perhaps that to find a cause is to show why the effect had to happen as it did . |
| 9 | The ceilidh was held in the stable yard of the castle but as there was no lighting , festivities had to cease when it got dark ; great to live by nature 's principles like this , but a shame to stop when it was going so well ! |
| 10 | We had to admit that it looked rather splendid . |
| 11 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |
| 12 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 13 | Mungo had to admit that it did not . |
| 14 | Nor had she ever seen such a dress on anyone over the age of thirty , but seeing it , she had to admit that it did not even look bizarre : it was a pale purple smock , waistless and bustless , with long , much-buttoned sleeves , and yet it managed to give only the faintest , most delicate air of Bohemia . |