Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] they had [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 They had four days together before they had to leave for Estoril and the pre-race qualifying sessions , and by the end of them Kate had to admit that the naïve dreams she 'd had of becoming irresistible to this man were exactly that , and extremely unrealistic into the bargain .
2 He said the Government had failed to understand the depth of feeling amongst unionists , especially as they had to share the council chamber with Sinn Fein .
3 David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them .
4 Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory .
5 They first hit on this method because they were suddenly deprived of their darkroom , shortly before they had to prepare a show .
6 And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round .
7 other things had gone up so they had to put the fares up , but I mean that 's , you can nae tell me that that 's right
8 One third of them also admitted they would drive more carefully if they had to buy their own cars and pay all the running and repair costs .
9 It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief .
10 ‘ Sorry to haul you off , girl , ’ Mr Hollins said in a low voice , ‘ But I reckoned it would be more comfortable for everyone if I got you out afore they had to start making excuses .
11 It was on another run , we got another coach come back so they had to go out to where the one it was
12 ‘ General Francis and Corporal Wix have been hoping you 'd be back before they had to leave for London . ’
13 John and Isabel were happy in their marriage even although they had to go into hiding occasionally , with friends or on the muirs .
14 Even if they had to take sewing lessons first it would still be less expensive and the idea of hiring a wedding dress must be unappealing to many brides .
15 The paper went on the say that such a move would at least give the people who came into the city centre greater reassurance , even if they had to pay for the privilege .
16 The section shaikhs and Ibrahim al-Sanusi were there because they had to guarantee to the Zliten people that all Zuwaya would accept the peace they had arranged .
17 The doctors were very keen you know very keen , and if actually if they had to go anywhere when there was trouble you know say you 'd got haemorrhage or anything like that they were supposed to report it you know .
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