Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] have [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 2 | In the absence of a firm formula , the parties will either tie themselves to a fixed price for the duration of the agreement ( which is clearly usually undesirable ) or else have to provide an agreement with a shorter duration , but with an option of renewal if new prices can be agreed . |
| 3 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 4 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 5 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 6 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
| 7 | Scotland 's junior men beat Switzerland 7-2 and only have to beat the US today to qualify for the semi-finals . |
| 8 | ‘ And you would have been a ready-made rich lady , and not have to marry a gentleman . ’ |
| 9 | But other theories do enquire and thus have to take an interest in what actors think that other actors think . |
| 10 | Life being what it is , unfortunately , our desires inevitably conflict , especially since we are social beings as well as individuals ( Richards invokes Bentham here ) , and thus have to consider the needs of others as well as our own . |
| 11 | BNFL press officer who was at Dover for the arrival of a NTL flask of spent fuel on its way to Sellafield , said : ‘ Greenpeace were at Dover for two days and finally had to admit the sand was harmless . |
| 12 | In his own life it had always been he who was the supplicant , telephoning Diana from call boxes on his rounds in the hope of closing some nagging gap of intimacy left at breakfast , and always having to hide the agony of dread that her casualness could cause him for fear of the danger of irritating her . |
| 13 | Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch . |
| 14 | Our industrial staff are always on site and automatically have to become the ambassadors of the company and procure sales leads . |
| 15 | The writer has no access to immediate feedback and simply has to imagine the reader 's reaction . |
| 16 | Filming stopped the entire unit decamped for lunch , and then had to abandon the scene as the tide had gone out and the puffer dropped from its previous position at the pier . |
| 17 | Indeed , it was something of a typically topsy-turvy but none the less gritty performance from Durie , who missed a match point at 5-3 and then had to wait an hour to complete the encounter after rain fell at the end of the ninth game . |
| 18 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
| 19 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
| 20 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
| 21 | And so you 'll appreciate that talking about himself doing it and then having to read the result is doubly distasteful . |
| 22 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 23 | The lizard loses fat stoned in the tail , and yet has to find the wherewithal to repair its wounded body and regenerate its tail . |
| 24 | This is why the use of system-wide logical names is always recommended ; if you use physical names and subsequently have to move the storage directory , you will require a site visit . |
| 25 | It must be remembered that a cruise ship is a complete holiday experience and therefore has to satisfy the tastes of our clientele on a 24-hour basis in a holiday atmosphere . |
| 26 | I AM disgusted with the inefficiency of our street cleaning operation and recently had to enlist the assistance of my local councillor to get a visitation to my street and surrounding area . |
| 27 | ‘ We get give all types and temperaments , but rarely have to turn a horse down . |
| 28 | If he wanted to refer a patient to a nursing home and the social work team recommended district nursing in the patient 's own home , he would not only be overruled but also have to foot the bill for the nurse . |
| 29 | Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business . |