Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] had [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er in fact it was put to me as as an option by Superintendent that this could be , if this could be done er at the time er if I recall one of the reasons erm that we were n't able to do it in such a way was that there are numerous exits to the block of flats and each exit would have had to be covered by at least two armed officers we only only had in the region of twenty five officers available to us at that time in the police who were authorised to be armed and to maintain such a surveillance , erm not only would be very costly in the terms of the number of officers . |
| 2 | A splendid Arctic picture with snowy mountains , icebergs and so on had as a centre-piece a small hole in the ice with a board saying , ‘ Danger ’ . |
| 3 | Although this active altruism was said to wane in the final year at school when each pupil had a wide range of other preoccupations , the strength , the compactness and the self-reliance of student groups only occasionally had to be challenged by teachers . |
| 4 | In the event it took the two of them , scrambling and sliding downwards beside each other , faces to the rocks , only some five or six minutes to reach the spot where the railing which Sven Hjerson had noticed further along had in fact stopped the couple 's fall . |
| 5 | The technology that was needed to cultivate the high-yield grains successfully often had to be imported , which led to the suggestion that food dependency was being exchanged for technological dependency . |
| 6 | There just had to be a special Super Brownie cake and card for Lynn Hurdwell when she left the Association . |
| 7 | Someone , somewhere out there just had to be searching for her . |
| 8 | Possible claims for compensation could not be faced by most councils , and in any case , there still had to be worked out a coherent land use strategy for the development of the urban fringe . |
| 9 | The Gournia houses are quite small , composed of perhaps five small chambers at ground floor level , although they almost certainly had at least one upper storey . |
| 10 | After six weeks Moz began to mellow , and the headstall no longer had to be kept on him . |
| 11 | With the advent of agricultural owner-occupancy in the years after the Second World War and the departure of the landlords or their factors , their authority no longer had to be sought . |
| 12 | The Headmaster no longer had to be a clergyman ( though Gurney in fact became a deacon in 1848 and was eventually ordained in 1853 ) . |
| 13 | He no longer had to consciously listen out for the psychic interference that pervaded the island . |
| 14 | There were other ways in which the years 1938–43 can be seen as a continuum in which reforming hopes of the interwar years no longer had to be deferred . |
| 15 | Since the Secret Committee on the Peasant Question no longer had to be secret it was renamed the " Main " Committee in January 1858 . |
| 16 | Somehow it seemed degrading to seek work this way , but vets no longer had to be anonymous . |
| 17 | The plebeians then see the light and Brutus has very cleverly swayed the plebeians into seeing the reasons why Caesar most definitely had to be killed . |
| 18 | But it very nearly had to be postponed . |
| 19 | The ‘ Busybodies and Meddlers ’ along with the new and better audiences imposed clear constraints on the showmen of the movie industry but all the problems that were posed by society were overcome , and were overcome with such decisive ease that they never again had to be confronted . |