Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To some extent he was lucky : at the beginning of his reign he encountered a pope , Gregory X , whom he had already met in England in the 1260s and on crusade in 1272–4 ; at the end of his reign Edward had to deal with a pope , Clement V , who had been his subject and his servant in Bordeaux ; in the interval between these two popes there were ten others , but nine of these together occupied the papal throne for barely fifteen years , five of them for less than a year each , two for four years apiece , one for nearly three , and one for two only . |
| 2 | Karadjordje had to contend with a group of strong-willed oligarchs who enjoyed considerable power within their own territories and who jealously guarded the various perquisites which they had acquired , such as the levying of ferry tolls and local taxes . |
| 3 | ‘ Travel trade decision makers are invited from all over the world to come and see for themselves what Scotland has to offer as a destination , ’ he says . |
| 4 | Actually as the others knew , she agreed with them , did not need the furious condemnation that Faye had to use as a fuel to keep going . |
| 5 | ‘ And that ties in with what Dippy Martin had to say about a woman entering by the Glynns ’ back door at around 11.30 . ’ |
| 6 | In fact , Sandy Lyle had to emerge from a pack of players at Royal St Georges in 1985 to become the first British winner for years . |
| 7 | Turnbull had to retire with a shoulder knock in the second half but he was so drained and short of breath that he could not finish his sentence . |
| 8 | Their action comes three days after BR had to postpone for a year its bill to build a high-speed Channel tunnel rail link to central London . |
| 9 | ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton . |
| 10 | For the next sequence , Crawford and the Suzuki had to jump into a pond ; a three-foot ramp was used this time . |
| 11 | If Diana has to walk through a ward with twenty beds in it , she will stop and talk to the occupant of each and every one , and the time keepers just have to get ulcers . |
| 12 | Later , Clive had to go to a club and watch the Sergeant Major and some of his army mates . |
| 13 | As a student on Imperial College 's petroleum geology MSc course , Mujadid had to go on a number of field trips during his year in the UK , but had not been able to buy suitable clothes for the British climate back home in Karachi . |
| 14 | Gedanken had to sit in a seat opposite Chris Parker . |
| 15 | ‘ Everybody 's a contender , ’ Maxim said , so softly that Agnes had to think for a moment to be sure what she 'd heard . |
| 16 | Well Dorothy had to go to a prison in erm Clackmannan for her |
| 17 | La Rozière had to leave in a hurry , but he brought back much useful information and , promoted to lieut. -colonel , was employed to survey the facilities available on the French coast for embarking the invading army . |
| 18 | GROSVENOR had to settle for a point from a Section II encounter with Mid Antrim despite dominating for most of the 70 minutes . |
| 19 | Then James had to look at a tray containing 20 objects and , when the tray was removed , see how many he could remember . |