Example sentences of "[adv] did he have " in BNC.

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1 Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums .
2 The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration .
3 He did not have to suppose that an animal could foresee the consequences of its behaviour ; still less did he have to suppose that an animal could imagine what it would do in its partner 's place .
4 He was n't queer , she felt sure , so did he have a woman every now and again she wondered ?
5 Now did he have any er political or trade union affiliations ?
6 What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ?
7 If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ?
8 Why did he have to lead her instead down an obscure passage to a toilet where generations of old and ugly and smelly monks had been relieving themselves ?
9 Why did he have to be so rude ? ’
10 Why did he have to frighten people so much ?
11 Why did he have to even think !
12 Why did he have to do that ?
13 If he had no intention of using four foreigners , why did he have them among his sixteen ?
14 But why did he have to leave his job ?
15 Why did he have to be so careless that he 'd ended up in prison ?
16 Why did he have to be here ?
17 Then why did he have an affair ?
18 Why did he have to make her feel so stupid ?
19 Why did he have to do that ?
20 Why did he have to ask all these questions ?
21 Oh , why did he have to look so irresistibly handsome when he smiled like that ?
22 And when he stood to strip off his tunic and shirt to have his arm attended to , why did he have to look so big and strong ?
23 Why did he have to choose this moment to be nice to her ?
24 And if Hasan was just an ordinary little boy , why did he have such an alarmingly high success rate in the prophetic-dreams department ?
25 Why did he have to come here ? ’
26 Why did he have to hate her so much ?
27 Why did he have to make such a provocative remark ?
28 Why did he have to do that ?
29 so why did he have to die ?
30 Why did he have to keep it there for three hours ?
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