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Example sentences of "[conj] he had to do " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Terry knew by the sound of his brother 's voice that he had to do as he was told .
2	Nicholas knew that he had to do something , but he was not sure what .
3	A group of refugees rescued from the war in Bosnia and brought to this country have been inundated with offers of help and accommodation.The six families were rescued by a headmaster , who saw pictures of the war on television and decided that he had to do something to help .
4	When Cliff went to Bangladesh he was already a member of Tear Fund but when he saw the suffering he felt that he had to do more and was ready to give up his singing career and follow his religious instincts to help these people .
5	He glanced at the clock and had a strange feeling that he had to do something — there was somewhere he ought to be .
6	He was getting nowhere making an appeal to their sense of order so he had to do something .
7	I think he laid a joker card and I had a hand card up , so he had to do a kiss my hand .
8	And he had to do it without Madonna .
9	This was his fault and he had to do something about it ( first attempt at sabotage ) .
10	The handbook said that the torturer had a job to do , and he had to do it well .
11	And he had to do that every year in order to satisfy his stance his hat that he was wearing , that he was actually being the boss , and knocking the workers down , look I 'm holding down , what twenty-two point on six , er and he believed that my need was that I could go back to my manager , and say , look I got him up to two point one , .
12	‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her .
13	I think he even said that in one of his last interviews , at 27 , that if he had to do it all over again , he would n't .
14	He said he hoped that if he had to do it he could count on me .
15	Probably more than that , but that , he would n't mind if he had to do it .
16	But he had to do better than that .