Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trying to bring those those elements together into a single definition , I I had to use an established grouping of permanent habitation . |
| 2 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |
| 3 | I had to make an instant decision , so I steered Foinavon to the right — the outside — to get away from the main part of the melee . |
| 4 | To tell my story : because I was very conscious that out of the static situation of the servant being the one who was menacing the Judge I had to make an ongoing story . |
| 5 | As a result , I had to make an expensive taxi journey to arrive at the meeting on time . |
| 6 | ‘ I wanted each chapter to be separate , but I did n't want it to be a set of separate short stories ; so I had to keep an enormous notebook of who they all were and what they were doing at any given time . |
| 7 | The paperwork was so vast that in 1988 I had to add an entire floor in my house in Ireland to accommodate it , and that turned out not to be enough . |
| 8 | As a detective , I have to keep an open mind . |
| 9 | She has to wear an artificial arm and mask to protect the skin on her face . |
| 10 | It is as if she has to create an impervious beauty , a mask to conceal the painfully damaged body beneath the clothes , just as her lips are always closed in these photographs to conceal her decayed teeth . |
| 11 | She is terrified of flying … so much so that often she has to fight an inner turmoil even to step on the plane . |
| 12 | The office servants were cheerful , knowing they were in a thriving company at a time when others were tottering ; she had to run an endless gauntlet of their cheer . |
| 13 | To get there you had to pass an unsteady table of jewellery and climb a flight of worn-lipped , stone steps to the second floor . |
| 14 | For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer . |
| 15 | Erm , if it 's paid up you can start paying again at some point in the future , but you have to pay an extra one-off charge , to do it , I think . |
| 16 | I think you have to find an inner strength in order to feel good about yourself . |
| 17 | I think the problem with feminism is that a lot of people think that somehow you have to understand an awful lot of things , you have to read a lot of books , and you 've got to understand a whole lot of different theories , before you can call yourself a feminist . |
| 18 | You have to have an equal diameter mass from the nut to the bridge , because otherwise the vibrating mass is not equal and the string just wo n't divide equally and harmonically . |
| 19 | You have to have an epic car if you 're going on an epic journey . ’ |
| 20 | Officially , since you have to have an official existence , you have a nationality of which you are either proud or fond . |
| 21 | So who says you have to have an able body to be an able seaman or seawoman . |
| 22 | You have to have an open mind I always think with these things . |
| 23 | You have to know an awful lot you know for grade five . |
| 24 | ‘ You have to keep an open mind . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ One was we had to take an international outlook rather than being a purely British company . |
| 26 | He says we had to climb an imaginary ladder . |
| 27 | ‘ We have to get an early start in hospital , you know . |
| 28 | We have to have an open mind on that , whether the victims were known to the killer or whether there is a grudge . ’ |
| 29 | We have to have an approved caterer which and what 's gon na happen is that those two room that the room where the weld and the wool were , we 're gon na virtually be sealed off |
| 30 | But if we have to make an explicit assumption that living creatures , or men , do actually exist in order to make an inferential paraphrase work , then a reductivist analysis fails to achieve its purpose and we are back exactly where we began . |