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

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1 Crucially , Realism provided a justification for the kind of foreign policy which the leaders of the USA felt that they had to undertake in the period immediately after the Second World War .
2 ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata .
3 There were also others who felt that they had to stop work because of their own or their spouse 's ill health .
4 ‘ He journeyed back to his own people , with many adventures along the way ; and when he was in Merkadale he told the Myrcans that they had to stop the killing , that they were only trying to pick an apple that was already in their hands .
5 Quite unexpectedly , at 9.00 a.m. on 12 July , the couple turned up at Auckland airport and told the hire company 's office there that they had to return early to Europe and were planning to catch the 11.30 a.m .
6 When the girl asked him where he was going , he told her that they had to return to Moscow .
7 During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals .
8 Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s .
9 Arthur found the reasons for this unfathomable , but took it that they had to do with a comparison to his own looks .
10 He and Levshin , his deputy , knew that they had to do something , but in 1856 their ideas were unambitious .
11 that they had to do there .
12 He wanted to stay in his own place but Jackie and Neville were nearly driven mad running up and down to Letchworth when all that they had to do , Jackie 's full time teaching and Nev is trying to build as many kitchens or build as many doors for millionaires as he possibly can .
13 The situation is very much easier today than even ten years ago when male/female roles were far more stereotyped and many couples felt that they had to conform to a set pattern for the sake of convention .
14 Notice also , that there is no evidence or suggestion that they had to wait for th for this baptism , for this infilling of the Holy Spirit .
15 No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected .
16 Holliman decided that they had to take cover , so they scuttled into a patch of scrub and camouflaged themselves with nets .
17 The priests in Jerusalem were so numerous that they had to take turns in performing Temple ceremonies .
18 The court stated that they had to take the plaintiff as they found him .
19 Not simply the women dying of too many children , but the women who were compelled to sell their bodies because that was all that they had to sell .
20 Neil Holden , Hambro Clearing 's finance director , adds that they had to put in ‘ quite a lot of effort gathering the data .
21 The companies vied with each other to find new settings for the basic story-lines and messages that they had to put over .
22 ‘ Very overrated , ’ he kept saying , and soon they were laughing so much that they had to put their heads beneath the blankets to stifle the noise , in case the farmer and his wife wondered at their hilarity .
23 The landlord of The Morning Star at New Bradwell , was Major Ansell MBE ( HG ) , who thought it unjust that they had to soldier on after their experiences .
24 When bad times came and wages were below the level on which they could support their families , the labourers found that they had to ask the authorities of the parish in which they lived for relief ; in other words they became paupers , who could be sent to the workhouse .
25 They broke off their colloquy at once , postponing all that they had to ask and to answer .
26 Thus while first-class patronage was encouraged , and more businessmen complained bitterly that they had to go first-class in order to enjoy their British breakfast , more humble individuals who merely wanted to enjoy the view from the train were not so generously treated .
27 They consulted their street map but , before they could work out their route , the little girl told them that they had to go down the hill , over the bridge , past another church , turn to the right and they would come to the church for which they were looking .
28 They all knew that they had to go on fighting , and be strong for their children , and Mr Edwards commended them for that strength .
29 However , Mary , Jack and Charlie did n't stop but made the excuse that they had to go back to work .
30 The Chinese never felt that they had to go anywhere much beyond their own frontiers to acquire knowledge or to find riches ; to the extent that they did go abroad , it was to the west , by land or by hugging the coast .
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