Example sentences of "had [to-vb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police had to tow him to a lay-by or something , or to the side cos erm it just cut out and that was it ! |
| 2 | Two of the boys had to carry him in . |
| 3 | But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety . |
| 4 | I had to hit him and I could n't but I had to . |
| 5 | She had to hit him , dent him , somehow . |
| 6 | He fell sideways , but I knew he was n't knocked out , he still kept hold of me , I suddenly felt I had to kill him or he would kill me . |
| 7 | I suppose that 's because they had to kill him first . |
| 8 | I just had to kill him . |
| 9 | I could not bear losing you any longer , I had to kill him . |
| 10 | There were hundreds of screaming women outside and we had to whisk him down to the underground car park and shut the gates behind him . |
| 11 | I had to prompt him . |
| 12 | But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey . |
| 13 | Despite everything , she had to see him . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to see him . |
| 15 | I had to see him and wave him on , ’ she sobbed , opening the contents of her purse into the collector 's tin . |
| 16 | I had to see him . |
| 17 | And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband ! |
| 18 | She disliked the wretched man so intensely that she did n't care if she never had to see him again . |
| 19 | But his editor had to see him . |
| 20 | Either he was in the early depressed state , with hands hanging , or else flailing his limbs about , unsafe to be with ; at such times they had to strap him down . |
| 21 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 22 | When they arrived , the Chinese had to inform him that in his absence he had been deposed by a military coup in Ghana . |
| 23 | Clare had to catch him for me , all 5ft 1in of her . |
| 24 | It 's like , ’ and she had to smell him again , to remind herself , ‘ it 's like fruit . ’ |
| 25 | She made for the door , but as perforce she had to pass him he put out a hand and caught her by the wrist . |
| 26 | had to shake him up And make the fancy take him |
| 27 | For a start , Oliver would always provide the girls and I would always provide the money , though naturally I had to slip him his half of it beforehand so the girls would n't know who was really paying . |
| 28 | From time to time she had to pull him up . |
| 29 | We had to pull him off . |
| 30 | Cos you had to pull him down to dance . |