Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [to-vb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the success so far , I had to conclude that the parental mucus was merely a dietary supplement and that Green Chromides can be reared in the same manner as the majority of cichlids . |
| 2 | I had to admit that the young men leaving that room all looked a bit shattered and one almost reeled out , holding his mouth with both hands . |
| 3 | I had to admit that the German service for prisoners seemed better than our own . |
| 4 | She had to smile when the busy reality met her the following day . |
| 5 | ‘ We had to show that the Regional Council could organise its affairs to ensure a more local system than currently exists through the regions and districts , ’ said Convenor Eric Milligan . |
| 6 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 7 | The scale of these stations was dictated not only by the numbers of passengers they had to handle and the imperial power they had to represent , but by the complexity of the Indian railway operation , and the range of facilities that had to be made available to the hierarchic and heterogeneous nature of the passenger traffic . |
| 8 | They had to learn that the final day of God 's victory might be long delayed , and they could not tell its date ( a point to which successive generations of enthusiastic date-guessers have remained remarkably blind ) . |
| 9 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |