Example sentences of "he had to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , in any case such dual commitment Leonard could not share , commitment for him had to be the expression of what drove him ; he was obsessive about his poetry and his life in art . |
| 2 | Anything handed to him had to be wrapped in Kleenex tissues . |
| 3 | The basis of Pippin 's support was narrow , but its geography meant that Louis 's autumn campaign against him had to be fought in difficult terrain : this part of Aquitaine was a region of hills and crags , deeply-wooded , and crossed by great rivers that impeded north-south communications . |
| 4 | Bryan Robson 's injury , a legacy of previous combat , was diagnosed when he had to be substituted 20 minutes from the end of the first leg at Portsmouth only 13 days ago . |
| 5 | They were just little signs warning her that she had failed to keep Fenna the perfect secret that he had to be . |
| 6 | He had to be told . ’ |
| 7 | As it was he had to be satisfied with a rise of 48 per cent to £514,558 , well below the highest-paid public company boss , Lord Hanson , who received £1.5million for his efforts . |
| 8 | He had to be careful . |
| 9 | He certainly liked men more , but then he liked manly men not ‘ bloody queers ’ , so he had to be all right . |
| 10 | He had told her that he had to be quick on the phone because his literary editor was listening to him . |
| 11 | He had to be charitable . |
| 12 | Now the rumours were widespread about Hitler 's fits and frenzies of rage , that he had to be accompanied everywhere by a doctor specializing in mental illness and Himmler had given orders to allow no one to see him , and that he was wounded and in hospital . |
| 13 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
| 14 | He had to be there . |
| 15 | If it was some horrible misunderstanding , he could n't talk to the girl to try to clear it up ; instead , he had to be kept in prison to prevent any possibility of contact . |
| 16 | Boris Mavra , Oxford 's Yugoslavian three , was so exhausted that he had to be lifted out of the boat , though he recovered quickly . |
| 17 | He had to be careful not to hit the sheep . |
| 18 | Conversely , when Woosnam was taken ill so badly during the Johnnie Walker tournament in Bangkok earlier this year that on completion of his round he had to be rushed to hospital suffering from dehydration , he did not leave until he had first dealt with the hovering group of reporters . |
| 19 | In the real world he had to be ditched before Labour could ever seriously hope to form an effective government . |
| 20 | Towards the end of his life , he had to be surrounded by bodyguards to protect him from germs and from contact with reality . |
| 21 | He had to be carried in because of his legs . |
| 22 | To have a drink on a Sunday , he had to be a ‘ bonna-fide traveller ’ , and had to go at least three or four miles before he would be served . |
| 23 | He tried to stand but collapsed and he had to be dragged to the Headmaster . |
| 24 | He was in top form , witty and debonair , and the party continued until the next day when Modigliani , still in a happy mood , became so rowdy that he had to be thrown out and locked in a police cell all night . |
| 25 | Now , at forty-three , he had to be content with cardboard bloaters ! |
| 26 | He had to be bathed in wine and wrapped in cotton in order to keep him alive . |
| 27 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 28 | Although slight , he was well made and capable of explosive strength when he had to be . |
| 29 | When he got you home he would strip at once , taking everything off right there and laying his clothes down on the hall floorway as if he had to be naked at once , methodically removing every item . |
| 30 | He had to be desperate to ask . |