Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
2 | Transport costs cut into that favourable balance ; the Company reckoned it had to sell Indian cotton textiles at 2½ to 3 times their Indian price to cover costs , and dividends were not normally above 7 or 8 per cent a year . |
3 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |
4 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |
5 | Last August , it said it planned to incorporate scalable font technology from Adobe Systems Inc and support for shared MS-DOS extenders through an agreement with Rational Systems Inc . |