Example sentences of "that he must [verb] " in BNC.

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1 With reluctance , Morton decided that he must make another attempt to identify the dead girl .
2 Examples of such tasks are : an adolescent girl who has been having unprotected sexual intercourse with her boyfriend agrees to go to her local family planning clinic to seek contraceptive advice and to avoid having intercourse until contraception has been arranged ; a student with difficulty getting down to revising for an important examination decides that he must make a list of what he needs to do — his therapist suggests he also arranges the topics in their order of importance .
3 JOHN BARNES last night faced up to the fact that he must make speedy progress to avoid a long spell in the international wilderness .
4 Well , tomorrow he must go , she would tell Mr Grenfell first thing in the morning that he must make other arrangements and then he would be out of her life forever .
5 Winter was coming , and Soapy knew that he must make his plans .
6 Any foreign manager arriving in Britain is amazed to find that the permutations of Ford Sierra , Vauxhall Cavalier and the like that he must offer his staff now define the pecking order in British society .
7 Not the clothes for cross-country , and he would stand out like a beacon on the fringes of the villages and collectives that he must circle like a fox coming to the dustbins for food .
8 Above all , his teaching about his own role in the purposes of God depends entirely on the conviction that he must fulfil the Old Testament .
9 That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown .
10 Deciding that he must marry Elizabeth , the daughter of his dead brother Edward , he woos her mother on her behalf in a scene which repeats the wooing of Lady Anne , his enormous energies finally overcoming all of her well-merited opposition ( IV.iv.199–430 ) .
11 Stirling was told that a new operation was being planned and that he must bring his entire force back to base .
12 The doctor then told Alexander that he must go on with the treatment .
13 After a pause for thought she told Dad that he must go and ask the Captain if he could let them have some cups and saucers and whatever else was available , even if they could not have the hall .
14 Balboa — as avaricious , arrogant and adventurous as any of his brother conquistadores — decided in an instant that he must go and see for himself .
15 Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it .
16 For he had suddenly realised that she was at the end of her tether — for what reason he did not know , and neither did he care , only that he must go warily with her , lest he damage her beyond repair .
17 ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart .
18 The Marquess of Lincolnshire , a former Liberal Minister ( as Earl Carrington ) and confidant of Asquith , wrote in his diary on 8 December with emphasis , ‘ The general opinion is that Baldwin has made such a mess of it that he must go at once ’ , and on 18 December , ‘ There is a Chamberlain-Birkenhead intrigue going on backed by the ‘ Daily Mail ’ . ’
19 When the army began getting tough with the Peking students last year , Zeng was there to act as the country 's conscience , but a week after the outbreak of violence he realised that his life was in danger and that he must leave China while he could .
20 Anaeas is in love with Dido but is told that he must leave in order to save trial .
21 Only the abbot and I knew , though he may have felt that he must tell Prior Robert . ’
22 Leith broke off , suddenly appalled that he must think that his cousin Travis was helping her out with her mortgage repayments .
23 Albert said joyfully that he must start using it , then .
24 His eyes were wired open so that he must stare unblinkingly at a giant Sagramoso head , and his own body had been reduced to roughly the same contours .
25 After trading for some months , he has been approached by a company which says it owns the rights to the trade name Pizza Parlour and that he must desist from using it .
26 He knows that he must improve his footwork for the grass courts , and he is also concerned that the head of his racket , which is smaller than most manufactured nowadays , may put his volleying at a disadvantage .
27 M was informed that his fellow directors had lost confidence in him , that they were not satisfied with his performance and that he must improve .
28 He told Agger that he must inform the Shah that the visit was over , that the King 's plane was at his disposal , and that he must use it — very soon .
29 What was more , she had an idea that he must feel the same , because he in his turn talked to her quite naturally , without the slightest attempt to entertain or amuse her .
30 I think he might have tried , thinking that he must fulfill this sexual desire that he had in some way .
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