Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [that] it [vb past] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | We had to admit that it looked rather splendid . |
| 5 | Now she finally had to admit that it had all been a total failure . |
| 6 | Folly had to admit that it seemed an efficient enough system . |
| 7 | Mungo had to admit that it did not . |
| 8 | 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 . |