Example sentences of "[verb] [that] he had to [be] " in BNC.

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1 She realised that he had to be the root of her insecurities , of her inability to believe that anyone could ever love her in return .
2 Zen gulped down the rest of his coffee and announced that he had to be going .
3 So badly was he affected that he had to be taught to speak again .
4 Boris Mavra , Oxford 's Yugoslavian three , was so exhausted that he had to be lifted out of the boat , though he recovered quickly .
5 George did not like being firm with Lennie but he knew that he had to be cruel to be kind .
6 For its part , the Phnom Penh government insisted that the " obstacle " of the former ruler must not be allowed to hold up the peace process , and denied that he had to be SNC chair under September 's Jakarta agreement on setting up the SNC .
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