Example sentences of "he have to keep " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 2 | His only possibility is to tap the latent anger , which he has to keep suppressed for the most part , and the social depression that would enable him and his peers to speak out from their own consciousness in order that a mature and civilized level of relationship can be attained between them and others . |
| 3 | Dad could probably give us everything that 's happening , but now he 's a deacon he has to keep quiet . |
| 4 | He has to keep these kids in the team because there 's nothing better to replace them — yet even five years ago Jamie Redknapp and Don Hutchison would have been back in the reserves , getting the time they need . |
| 5 | He has to do more than they do , and he has to keep it up for much longer . |
| 6 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 7 | For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill , because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upwards and can not gain any momentum . |
| 8 | He has to keep going all the time — to and fro about the world and walking up and down in it . |
| 9 | He has to keep an eye on his own kind as well as anybody else . |
| 10 | He has to keep his finger on the pulse . ’ |
| 11 | He has to keep coming back all the time to look after my needs when … when he 'd much rather be out having his needs looked after . |
| 12 | Anyway he , he has to keep changing for his work because they get a , a mileage allowance with the council |
| 13 | Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums . |
| 14 | At last he stood back satisfied , and the keeper asked , ‘ How long will he have to keep it on ? ’ |
| 15 | And would he have to keep the churchyard ? |
| 16 | Why did he have to keep it there for three hours ? |
| 17 | He had to keep this manner , this pained narrative , so that any reader would feel that the account had been forced out of him with great reluctance , and that the sordid events he had yet to describe were softened by the compassion and generous charity of the writer . |
| 18 | He longed for rest but knew that he had to keep moving , and hauling on the line , he got his hands on to the taffrail and vaulted into the cockpit . |
| 19 | He had to keep the prices up . |
| 20 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 21 | He had to keep scratching . |
| 22 | He had to keep breaking off so he could mop the sweat from his face and neck . |
| 23 | The sickness rose into his throat , and he had to keep swallowing . |
| 24 | The funeral director had a cold ; he had to keep reaching into the back for tissues . |
| 25 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 26 | ‘ He had to keep fighting from the inside , almost get his body born again , ’ she said . |
| 27 | Mr Wormwood did n't want to be scalped so he had to keep the hat on his head the whole day long , even when putting sawdust in gear-boxes and fiddling the mileages of cars with his electric drill . |
| 28 | The Brigadier was bouncing the jeep once again along the road out of Pontino , sending up sprays of wet grit and grumbling continually under his breath , this time because he had to keep switching the wipers on and off . |
| 29 | Fame is a less brilliant commodity in England , but nevertheless he had to keep his address secret , to protect himself not only from letters and telephone calls but also from undesirable visitors who might arrive at Carlyle Mansions . |
| 30 | The only problem was that every time he let the dog off the lead it tried to provide itself with a sheep supper , so consequently he had to keep it on the lead and feed it on tins of beans , sausages , bacon and egg , which had so exhausted his stock of food that now he was living on porridge and giving the dog the rest of his sausages . |