Example sentences of "have [to-vb] two " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 2 | The capitalist state has to perform two essential but often contradictory functions . |
| 3 | ‘ The Disabled ’ is a non-disabled construction , a representational framework no more real than a hologram but which has to contain two properties if it is to have any cathartic meaning for society . |
| 4 | This has to work two ways of course . |
| 5 | After fourteen dry nights the child has to drink two pints of fluid during the hour before bed in order to stress their bladders and test the children 's ability to wake up during the night . |
| 6 | The user has to drill two holes in the sides of the centre recess to fit a particular machine . |
| 7 | ‘ If the woman has to take money out of her purse then she has to use two hands and children can easily stray . ’ |
| 8 | One has to pay two thirds , and Mr Gollancz only gives me six ( How many does Mr Davies give you ? |
| 9 | So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination . |
| 10 | The only difference then would have been that he would have had to sign , and then we would have had to wait two more weeks ; and I 'll tell you , it 's interesting , with the bill the way it 's written , to put that on the Carrington case would have meant his being alive and suffering two more weeks and honestly , I would have had to do something like that in two weeks , probably because we 'd have to work hard on him . |
| 11 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 12 | Maclean also had been two games down , and had had to play two match points , before surviving on Tuesday against England 's promising 17-year-old , Simon Parke . |
| 13 | In a very Vincent-like move he wrote home to say that he had had to buy two secondhand pairs of trousers and two coats , as well as underwear and shoes . |
| 14 | Things he keeps , erm , little barrels , he keeps er number of balls , he 's had to put two pound coins in his pocket instead , and I think that 's put him off , anyhow he got it right . |
| 15 | The junior adventure story has always had to reconcile two contrasting points . |
| 16 | ‘ In doing so I have had to balance two key objectives . |
| 17 | VACUUM cleaner giant Hoover has had to employ two extra travel agents to handle more than 200,000 requests for give-away flights . |
| 18 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 19 | And after that she seemed happy the rest of the way , saying how lovely it had been to see them even for such a short time and how she 'd come down again when she could , but it was such a long way and the trains were so crowded with soldiers and she had had to take two whole days off from the ambulance station . |
| 20 | Under the old system B might have had to bring two actions against A : in the Common Law Courts to get damages , in the Chancery to get an injunction to forbid the continuance of the building . |
| 21 | THE MAGAZINE Private Eye will have to wait two to three weeks to find out whether it has won a retrial on libel damages of £600,000 awarded against it to Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper . |
| 22 | BAD NEWS for anyone wanting to move : you will probably have to wait two years for a substantial recovery in the housing market . |
| 23 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 24 | EVER bought a sofa or a bed and been told you 'll only have to wait two or three weeks for delivery , and ten weeks later you 're still waiting … ? |
| 25 | He 'd have to wait two or three hours while Customs ran it across the road to me so I could make a quick video dub for Hurley or his spook friends before they returned the original and let the guy on through to Nicosia . |
| 26 | And that 's third party carriage forward which is even , and Peter 's even happier because he does n't even have to wait two days now , he gets his delivery next day . |
| 27 | It has been well received and customers are having to wait two hours for a table on Saturday evenings . |
| 28 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — Santa Cruz says it would have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 systems still make up half its business . |
| 29 | The new operating systems have n't been recompiled for Intel 's Pentium — SCO says it 'd have to support two product lines otherwise — and sales on 80386 platforms still make up half its business . |
| 30 | Lineages also contributed to the expenses of funerals : members made a collection toward the cost of feeding the guests ; if the dead person was a well known and respected man , the household might have to provide two meals a day and continual tea for up to a week for a hundred or so visitors ( who sometimes brought a contribution of a sheep or tea or sugar ) . |