Example sentences of "[vb past] he have [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Did he have to act like this … ?
2 Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction .
3 The wind screeched in his ears , making consecutive thought almost impossible so that not only did he have to struggle in desperate conflict with the conditions but had also to fight to hold to his concentration .
4 Nor did he have to worry for long about hostility on the part of the gentry .
5 Did he have to boast about it too ?
6 The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it .
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