Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Greg Thomas came close to a wicket three times in his first over in Test cricket , but Greenidge and Haynes survived to give their usual start before Greenidge had to retire with a cut forehead after mishooking Botham . |
2 | Dustin had to suffer under a fourteen-piece latex mask , which took five hours a day to apply under the hot , steaming make-up lamps . |
3 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
4 | Sharpe had to duck under a low chestnut branch as he turned the next corner to see , five hundred yards ahead of him , the wide village street . |
5 | Brooke J. had to deal with a similar point in a different context in the recent case of In re X ( A Student ) , 11 November 1991 , to which we have referred . |
6 | As governor , Carter had to deal with a one-party , part-time legislature quite unlike that found in larger , more populous states , to say nothing of the United States Congress . |
7 | Gabriela Sabatini had to battle through a tough second set against a determined Conchita Martinez on Sunday to win her second consecutive Family Circle Magazine Cup at Hilton Head , South Carolina . |
8 | But John Smith has to live with a running sore in his own constituency , just beyond the depressed eastern fringe of Glasgow . |
9 | Although the pharmacist seemed to have some trouble deciphering the prescription , and Henry had to go through a nerve-wracking pantomime of ignorance about the nature of the chemicals he required , it was n't long before he was standing once again on the doorstep of 54 Maple Drive . |
10 | Prudhoe , who was never seriously troubled in the first half the closest he came to conceding a goal was when the under pressure Kevan Smith had to touch behind a dangerous cross by Mark Stuart was in the wars shortly after half time . |