Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] have [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was a large woman , flushed with the exertion of constantly having to answer the door , and she still showed in her black hair , grey eyes and lovely skin , traces of her Irish forebears . |
| 2 | Although I had kept in contact with several school friends from St Paul 's , I knew only one who was likely to have surplus accommodation in London , and I considered she might well turn out to be my one hope of not having to spend the rest of my life on a train somewhere between Romford and Regent 's Park . |
| 3 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 4 | Members of congress , by contrast , enjoy great power without responsibility ; it is possible for them to wallow in carping criticism and to engage in other negative tactics free from the anxiety of ever having to shoulder the responsibility for government — a burden that the president can not escape . |
| 5 | However , the surest way of never having to experience the misery — the most frequently occurring word associated with debt — the misery of debtors down the ages in Britain from Tom Verney to Sue and Tony , was to follow the time-honoured , still practical advice of Lord Chesterfield , Samuel Smiles et al that made boring but good sense in any age . |
| 6 | One way of never having to become a hostage to the tolerance of a credit-giving retailer , the patience of a money-lender , the goodwill of a pawnbroker , to surrender to the sorrow of exile or the safety of sanctuary , was to emulate Thomas Creevey of whom Charles Greville wrote in his journal in 1829 : |
| 7 | He tried to keep his voice firm , but the thought of actually having to kill the man in cold blood numbed him . |
| 8 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm very fond of it , but until recently had to forgo the pleasure . |
| 10 | You will , in theory , be able to walk into a dealer 's showroom and drive away a road-ready car without even having to take a spanner to it . |
| 11 | This time , however , it was not indecision that held him , but relief — relief at not having to play a role any more . |
| 12 | If Aschmann becomes unable to perform — as a result of your deliberately destructive influence — I would at once have to issue a statement making it plain that from now on I disassociate myself entirely from the Hochhauser Season . ’ |
| 13 | It got to the stage where we thought we were going to have to pull the idea of actually demonstrating skiing , but I follow if you 're writing about skiing , you at least had to show the difficulty of putting the boots on , and putting the skis on and side-stepping up the hill , and then finding yourself in a snow-plough position , and then turning around . |
| 14 | So if you want to make sorry C O two if you want to make C O two out of something you 're going to at least have to have a C in it somewhere . |
| 15 | The man will then , at least have to get the consent of the woman before he goes off and sells their joint property . |
| 16 | But how long after did they realise that they were saving the environment by not having to dump the waste , and by using Organic Matter to help plant-life grow , rather than synthetic chemicals ? |
| 17 | Apart from making it easier for customers to shop at their stores , retailers started their own store card or charge card schemes as a way of adding to their ancillary profits — and reducing outgoings by not having to pay the banks so much for their credit card schemes . |