Example sentences of "had [prep] be some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and if he 'd of walked up to John two minutes later he probably would n't have made it because we had a right erm but we did feel there had to be some initials . |
| 2 | But there must be some way — there had to be some way of getting news . |
| 3 | There had to be some way of putting an end to his domineering activities . |
| 4 | There had to be some way to break out of it and get back to reality . |
| 5 | OK , so he was well-built , and he was going to make a tough opponent , but there had to be some chink she could work at . |
| 6 | He said there had to be some mistake . |
| 7 | It seemed that there had to be some medium throughout space through which the light traveled . |
| 8 | Joan Cameron , a former Provost of Bearsden and Milngavie , who will chair the trust , said there had to be some vehicle for liaison . |
| 9 | When the verdict came down over the radio earlier that afternoon , I thought it had to be some kind of misunderstanding — a joke . |
| 10 | In the Sixties — with Charlton , Law and Best at United , Greaves at Spurs , Marsh at Rangers , Moore , Hurst and Peters at West Ham — you had to be some kind of deranged flagellant to choose a team that had n't won a thing since the Coronation . |
| 11 | There had to be some rationalisation of research funding in this field , and if the earth sciences are typical , other subjects could be expected to show similar effects in varying degrees . |
| 12 | There had to be some link with Helsinki . |
| 13 | ‘ He told me that in every war there had to be some casualties . |
| 14 | There had to be some enemy skirmishers close by , yet the Prince blithely ignored their threat . |
| 15 | But then , for women there had to be some exceptions — if one became pregnant , for instance . |
| 16 | There had to be some reason why , some factor strong enough to outweigh all his obvious qualifications . |
| 17 | There had to be some sort of telepathy at work . |
| 18 | If there had to be some sort of overall commander , he naturally felt that this should be himself . |
| 19 | In schemes of sharing such as these , there had to be some form of common management . |