Example sentences of "did he have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he have to act like this … ? |
| 2 | Perhaps not , perhaps he was wishfully imagining it — but what else did he have to go on ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Why did he have to lead her instead down an obscure passage to a toilet where generations of old and ugly and smelly monks had been relieving themselves ? |
| 5 | Did he have to poach to get the rabbit ? |
| 6 | Did he have to poach to get the rabbits ? |
| 7 | He did not have to suppose that an animal could foresee the consequences of its behaviour ; still less did he have to suppose that an animal could imagine what it would do in its partner 's place . |
| 8 | so why did he have to die ? |
| 9 | Why did he have to ask all these questions ? |
| 10 | ‘ Whey did he have to take all my teeth out ? ’ she mumbled . |
| 11 | But why did he have to leave his job ? |
| 12 | When he stopped working , did he have to leave the church house ? |
| 13 | Did he have to fix her with that piercing scrutiny ? |
| 14 | What need did he have to justify himself to this pampered youth ? |
| 15 | ‘ And what did he have to say ? ’ |
| 16 | What did he have to say ? ’ |
| 17 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 18 | Why did he have to do that ? |
| 19 | Why did he have to do that ? |
| 20 | It was bad enough that they were deceiving these innocent , kindly folk — did he have to do it so well ? |
| 21 | What did he have to do to escape ? |
| 22 | Why did he have to do that ? |
| 23 | Why did he have to choose this moment to be nice to her ? |
| 24 | And did he have to flaunt his sexual prowess with her as well , just because she happened to be female , and happened to be there ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nor did he have to present himself as piteous in order to feed his everlasting hunger for sympathy . |
| 27 | Well if he 's keeping forward with his policies , why did he have to sack the man ? |
| 28 | Why did he have to hate her so much ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Why did he have to keep it there for three hours ? |