Example sentences of "he had to keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to keep this manner , this pained narrative , so that any reader would feel that the account had been forced out of him with great reluctance , and that the sordid events he had yet to describe were softened by the compassion and generous charity of the writer . |
| 2 | He longed for rest but knew that he had to keep moving , and hauling on the line , he got his hands on to the taffrail and vaulted into the cockpit . |
| 3 | He had to keep the prices up . |
| 4 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 5 | He had to keep scratching . |
| 6 | He had to keep breaking off so he could mop the sweat from his face and neck . |
| 7 | The sickness rose into his throat , and he had to keep swallowing . |
| 8 | The funeral director had a cold ; he had to keep reaching into the back for tissues . |
| 9 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 10 | ‘ He had to keep fighting from the inside , almost get his body born again , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Mr Wormwood did n't want to be scalped so he had to keep the hat on his head the whole day long , even when putting sawdust in gear-boxes and fiddling the mileages of cars with his electric drill . |
| 12 | The Brigadier was bouncing the jeep once again along the road out of Pontino , sending up sprays of wet grit and grumbling continually under his breath , this time because he had to keep switching the wipers on and off . |
| 13 | Fame is a less brilliant commodity in England , but nevertheless he had to keep his address secret , to protect himself not only from letters and telephone calls but also from undesirable visitors who might arrive at Carlyle Mansions . |
| 14 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |
| 15 | Meanwhile he had to keep himself . |
| 16 | With wafer-thin profit margins , this meant he had to keep his planes to full capacity if he were to meet his debts , which he was never able to do . |
| 17 | When the guard had gone he had to keep his blindfold on while he overcame his anger and humiliation . |
| 18 | But he had to keep us on that . |
| 19 | Then when he was entertaining one of his friends he could n't get his stove to burn right and he had to keep it alight with matchboxes and cheese straws . |
| 20 | He could n't do that , though ; he had to keep cool , despite the Microwave Gun , and only answer back , if even that , Discipline ; that was important . |
| 21 | There was a kind of dance of thought going through his head : he had to keep in step . |
| 22 | He had to keep on the move … to Bethlehem House … and safety … from pursuit … from his enemy … from the pain … |
| 23 | The weight of the engine tugged his nose down and he had to keep tugging it up again . |
| 24 | He had to keep his arms free as he needed them to keep the snake from suffocating him . |
| 25 | He had to keep looking for new places he had n't fouled up . |
| 26 | He says his father wrote it a script and went to London to record it , but he was rather worried because he was a big smoker and he had to keep clearing his throat . |
| 27 | So of course he had to keep smoking them until he 'd finished |