Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] have [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , the change masters I studied had to build a coalition in order to find the backers or ‘ power sources ’ to provide information , support , and resources for their projects . |
| 2 | When I do have to evict an intruder , I 've discovered that it 's far better to pull the weeds out rather than hoe them . |
| 3 | Chair , I think have to make a point at this stage , although as I said earlier , we have n't got a complete picture yet . |
| 4 | Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’ |
| 5 | I 've had to get a padlock to lock it away . |
| 6 | All Blacks hero Grant Fox said : ‘ It 's not often I have been in a situation where I have had to kick a penalty to win the game . |
| 7 | I am sorry to say I have such a headache at this very moment because the thin winter light has faded outside the window and I have had to light a candle in order to get all this down in good time . |
| 8 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 9 | In taking this line of thought for a walk I have had to develop a model of antiracism itself , and this in the more properly social scientific sense of the word — the model as a typology of instances . |
| 10 | There is no word , at least in current usage , that does justice to this advanced technique , so I have had to coin a term of my own . |
| 11 | I have had to make a decision . ’ |
| 12 | These questions are not in themselves new and may be familiar to anyone who has had to design a catalogue , prepare a report , give a talk or write an essay . |
| 13 | As she said it , she managed to look back at him levelly , though she 'd had to suppress a dart of guilt before she spoke . |
| 14 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 15 | The two men fell into step together ; the old gentleman 's pace , however , was a little too slow for Fleury who kept having to master an impulse to stride on firmly , as was his custom . |
| 16 | Yes , I expect you did have to give a lot for your house . |
| 17 | But you do have to arrange a time with them but the benefit of this is that there will be a tutor to assist you . |
| 18 | However , that is n't the end of the sum because you do have to add a policy fee , and we 're not talking expense charge here , of one pound nineteen , we are talking a number which has been devised so that you get right answer from the rate book . |
| 19 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 20 | I think he erm to be Prime Minister , you do have to have a strand of ruthlessness |
| 21 | But you do have to have a glimpse of a character , and you have to have change . |
| 22 | ‘ Everything you do has to have a price , does n't it ? ’ |
| 23 | If you 've had to put a plan on ice or wait for an opportune moment to announce a life-expanding decision then you need wait no longer . |
| 24 | Breast milk , the best milk for such babies or for those who have had to undergo an operation during the first few days or weeks of life , is collected from mothers of healthy babies who have more than enough to satisfy their needs . |
| 25 | We do have to take a leaf , a little bit out of Kenzie 's book from the n the late nineteen thirties and afterwards , that when things are receding , you do n't batten down the hatches , you do n't simply close things in . |
| 26 | " We do have to have a guarantor , " he remarked , as much to himself , and said , " Very well , you said your brother would be back in a month ? |
| 27 | And we do have to have a meeting of an annual meeting of the council to elect your officers . |
| 28 | Clearly the riots and the er secrecy that the Home Office tried to surround those riots with , er show that we do have to have an ombudsman . |
| 29 | what other departments feel to your to your people , because wha , you do have to be careful about the indoctrination , this is what I believe so it 's right , we 've got ta we do have to strike a balance . |
| 30 | We are going through enormous changes in the education system at the moment and as Governors we have had to struggle terribly hard to learn how to govern schools as more power and more authority has been devolved to us , and we should have been spending this year erm working together on learning how to run a more successful school , and instead erm we 've had to waste a hell of a lot of time on really what was an absolute political nonsense and irrelevance , and I am glad we can turn aside from that . |