Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] had [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Due to sudden and unexpected problems the last Q.T. day had to have a shortened and condensed programme and it was not possible to provide tea at the end of the day . |
2 | In the end , Mr Hurd had to make a joking reference to Mr Clarke 's audacity . |
3 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |
4 | He said this summer that the Warsaw Pact had to become a political rather than a military alliance . |
5 | Gordon Marshall had to save a dangerous cross from Andy Kiwomya after only five minutes , and seven minutes later the Celtic keeper upended the same Dundee player in the box . |
6 | In the tests , Prof Jeffreys had to match a minuscule fragment of DNA from Mengele 's leg bone with blood samples from his son Rolf . |
7 | Aberdeen 's Paul Lawrie had to thank a homeward 35 for his 73 after starting at the tenth with a 6 and taking another at the eighteenth where he three-putted . |
8 | ‘ Mark Morris had to make a good save late on from a snapshot by a defender , but Gary Bennett also had a chance to win the game for us at the end . ’ |