Example sentences of "had [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The police had to tow him to a lay-by or something , or to the side cos erm it just cut out and that was it !
2 But before they reached the other side , Caesar cried out to Cassius for help , so Cassius had to carry him to safety .
3 But if she had to liken him to anything it would be an overgrown teddy bear in determined pursuit of his honey .
4 And then , suddenly , I had to see him as a MAN — my husband !
5 I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him .
6 Clare had to catch him for me , all 5ft 1in of her .
7 He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know .
8 The tribunal had to discharge him from hospital .
9 He tipped up her chin so she had to look him in the eyes but she pulled her face away .
10 He had to be assisted as he flayed himself , but he got most of the skin off as easily as a cardigan , and the minister only had to help him with the last few strips .
11 Dick and the nurses told him that , even after the pre-med , they had to chase him round the ward to get him to remove his shorts .
12 At the end of August 1914 he was promoted to Brigadier on the field ; so suddenly that an elderly spinster had to furnish him with stars unsewn from her father 's uniform .
13 It was such a collective experience that John was n't mine any more , I had to share him with all these people , each with different motivations and reasons for being here .
14 Sooner or later Rebecca would learn that her trust in him was unfounded , that she had to share him with any woman who took his fancy .
15 More traumatic still , James Prior , with the greatest reluctance , was forced to move from Employment to the exile of Northern Ireland , even though Mrs Thatcher had to keep him on the Cabinet 's main economic forum , the E Committee .
16 You had to address him as Sergeant : ‘ All correct , Sergeant . ’
17 Had to scrape him off the flag stones with this here spatula . ’
18 One lady positively adored her little Chihuahua , Poco , for 15 years , but the time came when he was persistently ill and she knew that she had to save him from further suffering .
19 The water was rising all the time , and we had to seal him inside a waterproof bag and drag him through the sump . ’
20 I think he 's telling the truth now but I had to threaten him with the Juvenile Bureau , the Welfare and God knows what before he did .
21 But of course I had to remove him from the field . ’
22 But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops .
23 At the next opportunity we were on our way to the Station Bomb Dump in the truck which J. had to get him around camp .
24 Then I had to take him to a big detached house divided into flats .
25 We had to take him to hospital and he had three stitches in it .
26 ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’
27 ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first .
28 I had to take him on trust on that .
29 He was so quick to forgive personal insults and injuries that it was said that you only had to injure him in order to have him as a friend for life .
30 At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope .
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