Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] 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 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
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