Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] had [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time that Edward Heath had to appoint a chairman twenty years later , he chose Professor Michael ( later Lord ) Swann , Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh University , on the grounds that running the BBC was rather like running a university , with a ferment of ideas , plenty of eccentricity and troublesome students . |
| 2 | SUE BELGROVE had to tackle a wilderness when she married a farmer and moved into his 350-year-old cottage on the borders of Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |
| 3 | Labour and Liberal Democrats said the Northern Ireland Secretary had to make a Commons statement to clear up whether Government Ministers knew the Iraqi arms embargo was being broken . |
| 4 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 5 | The 355mm ( 14in ) twin plate unit that came with the gearbox could n't be fitted into the space available , so Mr Tomlinson had to write a cheque for £800 to buy a special Case IH single plate unit . |
| 6 | On the day that the Home Office figures showed that the number of reported crimes had reached unprecedented levels , Book Trust 's chief executive Beverly Anderson had to cadge a lift with Penguin UK 's m.d . |
| 7 | Mr. Clark had to get a bricklayer to repair the walls that were broken and he complained that although the schoolmaster was in attendance the whole time , the boys had made it worse than it was before . |
| 8 | Mr Wray had to undergo an operation . |
| 9 | In order to make the most accurate moulds , the designer Allan Willinger had to devise a method of preserving aquatic plants in an unnatural environment while they were worked on . |
| 10 | To exploit his stature , de Gaulle had to create an organization from scratch , fend off rivals to his legitimacy , and dodge the attempts of his " allies " ( he used quotation marks on occasion ) to remove him . |
| 11 | ‘ One of the CIA men had to phone a message through to Reagan . |
| 12 | In an experiment , leaf-cutter ants of the species Atta texana had to follow a trail by walking along a plastic roadway placed just above the trail ; they followed the trail as usual , but must have done so by the airborne odour of evaporated scent . |
| 13 | And the Thompson woman who was administering glass for eight months , only it did n't take , so Freddie Bywaters had to stick a knife into the man near Ilford Station . |
| 14 | Yesterday The Northern Echo revealed Darlington clubs had to close an hour early on Saturday when British Summer Time started at 1am . |
| 15 | Before shooting could begin , producer Stuart Miller had to sign a treaty permitting the use of Custer 's Last Stand battlefield in the movie . |
| 16 | Ruth Baird continues to teach a strong Edinburgh class but as a result of her unplanned and completely unsponsored double somersault down a highland waterfall , Muriel Jessop had to have an operation to deal with a torn cartilage and frayed ligaments in her knee . |
| 17 | In Brent , council leader Merle Amory had to organize an emergency meeting of the pension-fund investment panel . |
| 18 | BEVERLY Hills 90210 star Luke Perry had to throw a girl out of the men 's room at a Hollywood pizzeria after she followed him to ask for his autograph . |
| 19 | As it was , marchers approaching John Street had to dodge a fusillade of missiles thrown by the loyalists . |