Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 2 | There was no water-borne sanitation , and every other day Tidey and I had to empty the few sanitary buckets , burying their contents in holes dug in the garden , as well as trying to keep the houses clean and collecting fruit and vegetables . |
| 3 | I still had another two masterclasses to play in , and so I had to practise the other two pieces which I would play . |
| 4 | I have to tell the right hon. Gentleman that indolence , sloth and complacency are not enough . |
| 5 | ‘ I have to catch the ten forty-five at the town station . ’ |
| 6 | I have to have the full eight hours or I ca n't do a thing the next morning , not a single thing . |
| 7 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 8 | Her industries produced an inadequate supply of munitions and weaponry and , in 1915 , with stalemate in the west , she had to bear the full offensive impact of the Central Powers . |
| 9 | Budhoo also explains why the IMF never suggests cuts to defence , police or public control measures instead of to basic services and subsidies for the poor : ‘ It 's one thing to push around countries and say , OK you have to treat the poor that way ’ ’ . |
| 10 | All that , all I can do is pick a file out of my come under One Two Three , but if you do that in Lotus you have to do the one two three first . |
| 11 | Instead , you have to open the separate chart-making program and paste , or link , data from your spreadsheet into this program — time-consuming to say the least . |
| 12 | SOMETIMES YOU have to state the bleedin' obvious . |
| 13 | Who decided , Mr Chairman , to pay the ten pounds , you were lucky really , you have to pay the two hundred pounds , that 'll be the |
| 14 | You have to bring the two separate cells into |
| 15 | ‘ But I think the average employee in the public sector , who has a job , knows perfectly well that , in the public services nowadays , you have to accept the same sensible level of settlements that people do outside , where things are going hard . |
| 16 | It got so bad we had to do the full old lady bit and put up net curtains . |
| 17 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 18 | Well , there are always possible alternative forecasts that we might make , but on the whole I think we know that we have to decide the best possible forecast that we can give , and , well , when I say ‘ the best ’ , the most erm confident forecast that we can push out erm with the information that we have available . |
| 19 | First and foremost we have to consider the immediate social contexts in which the statements are made : in one case an intervention in a youth project on a council estate dominated by the particular group of boys being interviewed ; in the second case a course run for police officers who had special responsibility for training cadets in the art of ‘ good community relations ’ . |
| 20 | They had to leave the two burning galleys , and a third , Lachlan 's damaged one , was sinking under them ; they transferred the men from it to the others just in time . |
| 21 | Gatting made the point that they had to win the final two games as after so much cricket they simply did not have the strength left for a third . |
| 22 | The Ndorrobo were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game , something a Masai would never do . |
| 23 | They have to do the tedious promotional work , the dodgy TV shows in Belgium and the interviews at American radio stations where no one knows who they are . |
| 24 | That amazes me why people , it 's like a status symbol they have to have the best bloody machine ! |
| 25 | As members of one of the world 's elite fighting forces , they have to gain the coveted green beret and undergo the same rigorous selection and training exercises as all other Royal Marines . |
| 26 | In addition to bringing down interest rates by another two per cent , he has to establish the right monetary policy after sticking to the wrong one for two years . |
| 27 | That uncertainty will mean that the City of London will lose any aspirations that it has to accommodate the central European bank . |
| 28 | Was there someone like him ? ‘ … and of course he had to take the greatest possible care . |
| 29 | Muhammad believed that he had to reform the old pagan religion of al-Llah , the High God of the Arabs . |
| 30 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |