Example sentences of "he had [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 2 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 3 | He had to do the right thing . |
| 4 | Still , he had to do the honourable thing … . |
| 5 | Autee Lord Justice had this to say at page nine two seven quote , having decided that he , brackets the judge close brackets , could make no allowance for the possibility of increased pension payments because of the increased cost of living index , he had to decide the present day value of the fixed sum payable in thirty one years time . |
| 6 | He scrutinized the documents as if they were a puzzle picture in which he had to spot the deliberate mistakes . |
| 7 | He knew that , ultimately , he had to toe the official line because , like any other player , he could n't afford to be put on the dole . ’ |
| 8 | When he recalled how he had felt on first seeing her he had to push the sinful thoughts out of his mind . |
| 9 | He had been almost three years in this post , the appointee of the new administration , and he knew he had done well , even though he had to succeed the incomparable Charles Price of the Reagan years . |
| 10 | So Lanfranc was left no choice : he had to retain the monastic community in his cathedral church , and we may ask what he found on his arrival , and what impression it made on him . |
| 11 | Browne had tentatively suggested the summer of that year as the " deadline " for it , but Eliot was uncertain how quickly he could recover his dramatic skills and , since he often needed to work slowly , he believed the spring of 1949 to be a more appropriate date.Throughout the spring and summer of 1948 he worked on it as consistently as he could , although there were egregious interruptions : in April , for example , he had to make the British Council trip to Aix-en-Provence which had been postponed the previous winter . |
| 12 | He did not worry too much in those early years of his married life , telling himself that some women were slow to conceive , but after twelve years and his wife still childless , he had to accept the painful fact that she never would have any . |
| 13 | ‘ Because he would have had such a responsible job , he had to have the absolute backing of both countries and he clearly did not and would have been in an impossible position . |
| 14 | Nevertheless Salah 's achievement was the result of a complex exercise in oasis politics : first , he had to establish the general principle that women are worthy of education . |
| 15 | Similarly he had to secure the papal lands and ensure that the revenues from them reaches the papacy . |
| 16 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |
| 17 | He had to endure the accusing stares and hostile speeches of those PAC negotiators who had not been arrested . |
| 18 | As described , he had to contain the troublesome region of Benevento , but another power also held parts of southern Italy , the Eastern Empire based at Constantinople . |
| 19 | But for professional reasons , he had to know the exact cause of death . |
| 20 | True , Edward 's failure on the expedition of 1359–60 ( when he had not been able to capture either Reims , where kings of France were crowned , or Paris , the capital ) meant that he had to forego the important territorial concessions made to him in 1359 , including Normandy and the Angevin lands in central-western France . |
| 21 | Taking an early interest in his father 's work , he constructed a steam engine with which to drive all the lathes and other machines ; in order to do this , he had to convert the reciprocating movement of the Newcomen-type beam engine into rotary motion . |