Example sentences of "have had [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender . |
| 2 | The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal . |
| 3 | Nula , 32 , of North London , has had to fight off an attacker at a bus stop and survive a nightmare ride with a sinister mini-cab driver . |
| 4 | Instead of having to cancel a trip to the Blue Mountains , she 'd had to put off a trip to the Blue Danube . |
| 5 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 6 | He was almost blue with cold , having had to scramble up an iceberg , loaded with a hundred pounds of scuba gear , and then left for long minutes all by himself . |
| 7 | But it is probably good advice to plan this sort of book every bit as much as the writer of the puzzle detective story will have had to work out the plot and most of what is necessary to sustain that plot . |
| 8 | Ah they would have had to wash up the plates and the knives and forks . |
| 9 | When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas . |
| 10 | ( God , or the Deity , existed because somebody had had to work out the mathematics in the first place . ) |
| 11 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 12 | Due to the printing and publishing costs , we 've had to put up the price of your BROWNIE magazine . |
| 13 | But since we 've won in Barcelona , we 've had to go around a lot to dinners and appearing on television shows like A Question of Sport and Blue Peter . |
| 14 | The bus , therefore , no longer goes along Summerfield terrace , with the result that 50 old-age pensioners have had to draw up a petition to try to persuade the public transport company to reinstate the two-way pattern . |
| 15 | Yesterday , Marchant boss Philip Marchant said : ‘ We have had to batten down the hatches . |
| 16 | I have had to pull up the Minister when he has visited Teesside and talked about companies in Tyneside which are of no interest to people on Teesside . |
| 17 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |