Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlie had to go to the foster home because she could n't get along with her stepfather . |
| 2 | But er no , Sir Edward had to go through the full rigmarole of a meeting with the great man , I put that in inverted commas , but er I suppose he thinks he is , the great man himself , Saddam Hussein . |
| 3 | So here we are in January , my premiums are going into the Japanese fund , I want next month 's , February 's to go into the managed , that 's just changing , and it leaves these Japanese funds invested , here . |
| 4 | We never receive the impression that Dickens has to struggle with the English language to express his meaning . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , through his energy and skill , he has now given a powerful send-off to the new United Nations and its new Secretary-General in the very complex and difficult tasks that we expect the UN to have to face in the post-cold-war world ? |
| 6 | A reasonable interpretation of the religious history of Clovis 's reign could thus run as follows : from the moment of his father 's death , Clovis had to deal with the catholic hierarchy ; nevertheless he remained a pagan , even after his marriage to a catholic wife . |
| 7 | I do n't have a great deal of sympathy for his argument , since the BBC has to live in the real world like everyone else . |
| 8 | Phoebe had to stand on the cold and excessively clean linoleum floor , far away from the fitted carpets and deep leather chairs of the waiting area . |
| 9 | Why should the people of Liverpool have to pay for the self-inflicted deficits of their local council , and why should the people of Lothian suffer the same dismal experience ? |
| 10 | Even so , Bicker and Luib had to hunt on the eastern bank to supplement what food they had left . |
| 11 | Not only was the company interested exclusively in cheap pictures for the local market , but also Dean had to go through the ignominious process of securing cast approval on his pictures from Solly Newman , the head of the company 's UK subsidiary , whom he regarded as both ‘ illiterate ’ and ‘ over-shrewd where money was concerned . ’ |
| 12 | TV 's Bill star Nula Conwell had to call in the real police when she woke up to find her home burgled . |
| 13 | Gandhi 's teaching concerning the symbolic nature of personifications of Truth in a variety of different forms seems on the face of it to correspond to what Tillich has to say about the symbolic nature of Christian terminology . |
| 14 | It would have been very painful for Muldoon to have to pass on the bad news , so he decided to leave for the States and let the Detroit executive personnel Director handle Mark 's affairs . |
| 15 | The first lecture was on Comus ( subsequent talks on Milton had to move to the large lecture-room at the Taylorian Institute , the Divinity Schools being too small ) . |
| 16 | In any confrontation with employers , the ETS had to reckon with the potential split between compositors and machinemen ; with the apprentice question ; and with the threat from non-union men recruited from outside . |