Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | do I have to look out the old greatcoat , woolly hat , scarf and gloves of my hippy days ? |
| 2 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 3 | Six o'clock in the morning , I had to clean out the Danish piggeries . |
| 4 | I had to consider seriously the potential risk to John , but if the hostages could be made an issue at home , at the very least the Government would n't be able to ignore their plight and might , consequently , be influenced in their dealings abroad . |
| 5 | But if you would n't tell me I had to find out the only way I could , ’ Travis explained , tightening his arms about her . |
| 6 | I had to find out the hard way — to coin a phrase . |
| 7 | Or if suddenly you have to halt then the whole lot does n't come forward and squash into the next piece in front into the ne That 's why it 's edge on longways down so that the the wardrobe is that way edgeways on you see so that if you suddenly stop the weight of something there wo n't squash the the wardrobe . |
| 8 | You get a little book , and you have to take out the tape , and you have to write down the different conversations you have in between , all your conversations , and then erm , . |
| 9 | You have to work out the right questions to find out what you want to know , see ? " |
| 10 | However , you will probably have obstacles such as window reveals , door openings and built-in furniture in the room , all competing to be the centre of attention , and you have to work out the best ‘ centre point ’ while trying to avoid having very thin cut-tile borders and edges anywhere . |
| 11 | Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system . ’ |
| 12 | Before you can have a revolution you have to break down the existing system . |
| 13 | We had to blow out the first two weeks of an American tour . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We had to take out the affected computer and rent another . |
| 15 | This was the first opportunity we had to try out the new personalisation facility with the agents ’ mailing . |
| 16 | Next we had to locate accurately the various islands and rocks all around us to pinpoint the changes in our course . |
| 17 | To get it to work properly , we have to clear out the old powder , which are our old conditioned thought patterns , and replace them with the right ones . |
| 18 | To understand any organisation we have to understand both the formal and the informal . |
| 19 | It 's very tight to get in what we need to get in and we have to buy just the right tables . |
| 20 | Indeed , the activities of the Cistercian monasteries in the twelfth century demonstrate how full the landscape was by that date , when they had to create artificially the wild , inhospitable landscape they preferred . |
| 21 | Failing that they had to trudge down the nearest side streets with their suitcases , knock on doors at random asking whether they took theatricals . |
| 22 | They had to walk down the long straight street past Shea 's pub with its sour smell of drink coming out on to the street from behind its dark windows , past Birdie Mac 's sweet shop where they had spent so much time choosing from jars all their school life . |
| 23 | Now they had to work out the 24th number . |
| 24 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 25 | They went to total excess and then they had to come back the other way . |
| 26 | ‘ Then if we actually go ahead and build the New Jerusalem , they have to take up the full rights , which would amount to … 2.000.000.000,00 . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand , the group of verbs which occur with predicate qualifiers will be expected to exhibit some degree of compatibility with the noun phrase element of the structure which they govern , although this does not imply that they have to make exactly the same sort of sense when they occur with that phrase alone as they do when the adjective is present , for the very reason that the adjective provides the syntactic-semantic condition under which the relation between the verb and its object holds ; compare leave the items and leave the items date-stamped . |
| 28 | The sexton is complaining that he has to scrub away the unbearable smell every day , and that the church has already had to undergo several repair jobs because of the problem . |
| 29 | First he had to sort out the embarrassed financial affairs of his brother John , which had been neglected by the latter whilst working for the Company . |
| 30 | Above all , he had to speed up the protracted constitutional timetable of his predecessor . |