Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant my brother and my mum had to share a double bed and I slept in a single one . |
| 2 | At this critical moment my father had to escort an Abyssinian Mission , headed by Ras Kassa , to England to attend King George V 's coronation . |
| 3 | Marcel and Patterson ( 1978 ) presented one word , followed by a pattern mask ( see Chapter 4 ) such that the word could not be identified , and the mask was followed by a letter string about which subjects had to make a lexical decision . |
| 4 | There followed a few minutes ' discussion where it seemed Cicely Hepwood had been all set to cancel an arrangement she and her husband had to visit a sick friend in hospital that afternoon . |
| 5 | Managers and their advisers have to resist the great temptation of trying to save a deal or outbid a rival at all costs . |
| 6 | None of these methods of book provision are suitable for the British public library authorities created by the 1972 reorganization of local government , in which bookstocks have to serve a large number of service points ( usually more than 20 , sometimes as many as 70 ) scattered over a very large area . |
| 7 | A great administrator , William ordered that a comprehensive record be compiled by a royal commission whose members had to visit every English shire in 1086 , recording the use of every piece of land , and the massive manuscript records can be found in the Museum of Public Records at Chancery Lane , London . |
| 8 | The boxer : the end of the round , the bell went , his seconds had put down his stool , he was there to sit , and his opponent had to walk the whole way back to his own corner . |
| 9 | A long time in the dark and he d have to go a long way round if he was n't to upset the sheep and alert Jack . |
| 10 | His son had to dismiss the Crimean commander on his behalf because after catching a cold Nicholas had insisted on inspecting troops in twenty-three degrees of frost . |
| 11 | And thirdly , in order to unravel the totality of things that are and see how it is inwardly articulated and how it emanates into the diversity of the world as we experience in the ordinary way , your thought has to follow a special kind of logic , dialectical logic , which exhibits the process of thought and simultaneously the process of reality as one that proceeds by things being or things being said , and these giving rise to their opposites , to contradictions , and these contradictory moments or items being taken up in a greater , synthesizing whole . |