Example sentences of "he had [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered some story about a primitive farmer who discovered roast pork when his house and his pig barn burned down and then imagined that he had to set fire to the place again every time he fancied a bit of crackling . |
| 2 | How jarring it seemed then that , at the consecration , reference had necessarily to be made to the man Jesus of Nazareth : he had to take centre stage . |
| 3 | The woman sitting in front of him was right , he had to take responsibility for himself . |
| 4 | The crowd was surging out of the hall , we were carried along with it and I was worried about the baby in all this pushing and shoving , but did n't like to mention it in case William should feel he had to take care of me . |
| 5 | He had to take care because the language was foreign . |
| 6 | He had to take action against pirates and sailors who used the port of Harfleur as their main base , and who were encouraged by the French king to carry out raids upon English shipping in the Channel and the English coast . |
| 7 | ( There is a record of a complaint by an inmate of a workhouse elsewhere , that although he was paying six shillings a week for his maintenance , he had to do work such as window-cleaning and blacking grates . |
| 8 | Christie 's mouth was now quite dry , and he had to gather saliva before he could speak . |
| 9 | But it seems a pity that he had to leave Education when the changes in the system still have so far to run . |
| 10 | While making Slave Ship in 1937 , he had to slap cabin boy Mickey Rooney around . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see what 's funny , ’ Carrie said , and this set him off properly : he laughed so hard that he had to stop running . |
| 12 | What the doctor is saying is that he had to continue treatment , because it was right to do so as a matter of public policy . |
| 13 | The doctor is saying that he had to continue treatment as a matter of legal obligation . |
| 14 | And when Alexander Korda returned from America , where he had been supporting Britain 's propaganda effort , with the intention of competing with Rank , he had to use bravado and charm where Rank had cash . |
| 15 | He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions , and was not above resorting to disguise . |
| 16 | So poor that he had to borrow money to buy a horse , he found Mehmed II on the road from Istanbul to Edirne and was introduced to the sultan by the vezir Mahmud Papa ( Grand Vezir 858–72/1454–68 and 877–8/1472–3 ) . |
| 17 | With his kinsmen and the Godwin family hounding him , and Mercia threatening to overwhelm him , he had to extend north , or else clear his rivals out of Northumbria . |
| 18 | At the final GP he had to finish second to clinch the title but never took his Repsol Honda higher than third in the most crucial race of his life . |
| 19 | He had to wear finger and leg splints for several hours . |
| 20 | At one point he was almost cut off and , in the pitch black , in the bowels of the earth , he had to swing arm after arm from the overhead girders to stay above the advancing peat . |
| 21 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
| 22 | They 'd had a , he had to give evidence he said , you know because , I mean he said a few days previously so they , financial problems as loaded as the family are nobody come to the rescue ! |
| 23 | In the event of dispute he had to give testimony , whose value often seems to have been related to his rank . |
| 24 | He was able to snatch one long weekend in the country , but almost at once he had to start work on the preparation of lectures for a three-week tour of Germany . |
| 25 | He had to double park there — does n't everyone ? — so he put the warning indicators on as he climbed in the back of the red Transit . |
| 26 | No , he knew where to start — he had to make contact with other British in the city . |
| 27 | It was obvious to everybody in Rome that he had to marry money . |
| 28 | He had to seek shelter — somewhere to lie up and heal . |
| 29 | But in February he returned to the Rhineland to deal with yet another raid by Louis the German there ( this time the emperor drove his son out so forcefully that he had to seek refuge with the Slavs before making his way back to Bavaria ) . |
| 30 | He had to bring football into it did n't he ? |