Example sentences of "[pron] have have [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I 've had to spend a couple of nights in a porchway ? ’ |
| 2 | I 've had to get a padlock to lock it away . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have had to make a decision . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I also had a letter from about some request she 'd had to send a copy of the CAMET corpus to Sheffield . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The response is coming through slowly , but we 've had to take a lot of initiatives on our own and we are hoping that others will come and support and back these initiatives . |
| 15 | So we 've had to do a lot of work ourselves , including researching carefully that we are doing something worthwhile . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've had to strike a balance between offering people what they liked with the first movie but coming up with something fresh . |
| 17 | Asia had not had visitors since October although some were arriving shortly : one had had to postpone a visit . |
| 18 | Once we 'd decided to have a baby we had had to find a Father . |
| 19 | Because the schools are up to 65 miles away , we have had to give a lot of thought to the development of distance learning materials . |
| 20 | This one 's had to have a transfer . |
| 21 | They 've had to open a service for them , they 're all getting their stamps |
| 22 | Glenn Hoddle says it was a big win and rewarding after a week in which they 've had to sell a player and have been troubled by lots of injuries … |
| 23 | For the Conservative Government to maintain any level of legitimation in ideological or cultural spheres , they have had to construct a definition of common sense which reinforces their definition of the social order . |
| 24 | Electric fish have , at least twice independently , hit upon this ingenious method of navigation , but they have had to pay a price : they have had to give up the normal , highly efficient , fish method of swimming , throwing the whole body into serpentine waves . |
| 25 | He has had to carve a replacement . |
| 26 | He is in such demand as a speaker that he has had to make a rule that he will no longer accept invitations to functions that are unconnected with the coal industry . |
| 27 | It was that he had had printed a leaflet , which he was taking to hotels , restaurants , shops , advertising his firm : Philip Fowler , Builder and Decorator ; that he had to get real work , soon ; that he thought he had contributed more than his share to this house , which was now in working order . |
| 28 | Recently he had had to have a catheter fitted for some medical problem and because of his absconding behaviour , the nurses had hit on a really original wheeze — to force him to carry the slowly filling urine bag in one of those four-milk crates one sometimes sees on doorsteps . |