Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problems this causes is phenomenal and many training agents have had to carry expensive overdrafts because of it , ’ said Mr Hanson . |
| 2 | I have had to carry these abilities into my present job ! ’ . |
| 3 | Nearly one million people have now had to claim mean-tested benefits in order to top up low pay . |
| 4 | He had had to wait four hours in the out-patients department , he said . |
| 5 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 6 | I had had to wait seven years for Evans 's pardon and another seven years for Meehan 's , and , knowing the reluctance of the Home Office even to consider whether a mistake has been made , far less admit it , I had little hopes of any quick remedial action . |
| 7 | We 've had to cancel five classes that we set up erm in November . |
| 8 | A vicar has had to cancel twenty weddings because his church roof is in danger of collapse . |
| 9 | But we shall see as well that the Conservative belief , for both retributive and deterrent purposes , in punishment by incarceration , has at least had to acknowledge economic realities . |
| 10 | Since she was abandoned by her husband — under Ugandan Native Law a man can freely acquire other wives — Mrs Kizza has had to support nine children with nothing more than the 1,500/ ( £1 ) a week she earns from serving in a bookshop . |
| 11 | He liked mechanical things and he was pleased that the chainsaw he had had to dismantle several times in the past seemed to run perfectly . |
| 12 | Second , the small congregation at St Barnabas ' , of some fifteen , that were to be ‘ moved in on ’ had had to accept radical changes that were presented to them prior to the move for their agreement . |
| 13 | They 've had to find practical solutions to practical problems . |
| 14 | Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier . |
| 15 | On the verge of tears , Ragu says ‘ I have had to sell three cows , one bullock and two gunts of land and all my good household utensils to fight this case . ’ |
| 16 | Group Services has had to reflect these changes resulting in a cutback on staff numbers with the loss of many valued colleagues . |
| 17 | I 've had to edit ten years of your memories , a lot of which were n't edifying . |
| 18 | The lucky ones had bikes but most had to walk long distances to meet up with their friends . |
| 19 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 20 | Thomas has had to endure three months of misery , the worst of his career , after the collapse of a £3 million move to Blackburn Rovers which would have set up the Crystal Palace midfielder for life . |
| 21 | Had they not had such a resource at their disposal some might have had to forego particular orders , others might have been obliged to withdraw entirely from certain markets , whilst still others would have been less willing to innovate with new products offering chances of survival or expansion . |
| 22 | Scotland have had disruptions to their scrummaging routines this week though , as both McGeechan and Dixon reasoned , it is not as if they have had to fuse any newcomers to the pack , where Peter Wright 's sabbatical to loosehead worked well against the French . |
| 23 | Because of him she had had to waste valuable days sightseeing , all the time aware of him breathing down her neck , and conscious that Lori had an extremely low boredom level . |
| 24 | I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects . |
| 25 | But to achieve these advantages , derivatives exchanges have had to devise institutional arrangements to ensure the absence of default risk . |
| 26 | But we have had to do those things . |
| 27 | ‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours . |
| 28 | er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings . |
| 29 | And I said , you must realize I 've a small company , and that 's , in one respect that I 've had to send those conditions because you 're failing to meet the agreed thirty days payment ! |
| 30 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |