Example sentences of "have [adv] had [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I learn that the Foundation has just had to purchase a number of canvases from this very donor for a far from meagre amount . |
| 2 | Intelsat has already had to stretch the lives of six older satellites over the Pacific Ocean and last summer repositioned a satellite over Indonesia to increase capacity . |
| 3 | Paradoxically , social work has also had to ration the supply of those services . |
| 4 | Appeal courts are expected to show some mercy because the defendant has twice had to face the ordeal of being sentenced . |
| 5 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 6 | Lord Young , a minister who has never had to face an election , has a meagre reservoir of affection and support among Tory backbenchers . |
| 7 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 8 | Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate . |
| 9 | I 've only had to carry a pistol once , just a few hours . |
| 10 | They were watching , because a machine rolling around by itself is something that you do watch , even if you 've just had to climb a tree or hide behind a hedge . |
| 11 | Writing in the influential Police Review magazine , Mr Roach , head of policing for north-west London and a member of the Association of Chief Police Officers , said that , since the time of Sir Robert Peel , the police had always had to reassure the public that their powers and privileges would not be misused . |
| 12 | When painting during redecorating , I 've sometimes had to remove a telephone cable and staples from the skirting , to make a neat job of it , rather than paint over the cable . |
| 13 | I 've never had to arrange a funeral before . ’ |
| 14 | I 'M A BIT NERVOUS , I 'VE NEVER HAD TO MAKE A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SPERM BANK BEFORE |
| 15 | Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable . |
| 16 | We have also had to raise the price of water , electricity and fuel oil . |
| 17 | General practitioners have also had to bear the brunt of many changes , usually without a proportionate increase in funding or resources , and now have to contend with the problems of poor recruitment . |
| 18 | This has been a recurring function as scientists have repeatedly had to justify the place of science in their culture . |
| 19 | Most general practitioners accepted that the service delivered was what you got and I have often had to persuade the patient to accept that . |