Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
| 2 | ‘ The spirits respect me ; I have had to do with the dead for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Chartered secretaries have had to develop during the 1980s in much the same way as their nearest counterparts , lawyers and accountants . |
| 4 | Otherwise he would not only have to wait till the young of a non-related male were reared but would probably have to protect them as well in order to prevent other males from supplanting him . |
| 5 | Nothing else was right , you had to go for the best in life , and I suppose we 've always felt that . ’ |
| 6 | I had to write to the next of kin . |
| 7 | We just have to play to the best of our ability and if that 's good enough we may get something out of it . ’ |
| 8 | This was recognised by Sir Ernest Gowers in The Complete Plain Words : [ L ] egal draftsmen have to ensure to the best of their ability that what they say will be found to mean precisely what they intended , even after it has been subjected to detailed and possibly hostile scrutiny by acute legal minds … |