Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd had to work like a Trojan to achieve it , but it had been worth every drop of blood , sweat and tears . |
| 2 | ‘ There is a possibility that this chap will move to another university next year , but for the time being I 've had to look for a way to take the heat off . |
| 3 | It would take so much courage to find another doctor , and she would surely have to go to a hospital to do so . |
| 4 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
| 5 | Is n't there enough guilt around without having to slave like a martyr to lose weight ? ’ |
| 6 | The school librarian and teachers will have to decide on a policy relating to this information — should other pupils know which particular pupil has a particular book ? |
| 7 | He had already been involved in taking prisoners to the mountains and told me that he would now have to think of a way to get Eric there too . |
| 8 | Plus of course the attendant horrors for someone normally so well-groomed to have to wait for a face plastered with scabs and unshaveable stubble to heal . |
| 9 | the organ there was a you know where you put your pump belt , there was a long stout piece of wood and you had to keep pumping that up and down to put the wind into the organ , and there was a mirror above the organ and Mr the org the organist , who was a butcher in Street , he could look into that mirror and see whether you was pumping fast enough and he could signal to you and he used to warn you to er keep your eye on the mirror and if he , if he wanted more wind he used to be up up up oh or , but it was just a big long of wood and we used to pull it up and down , I was fairly tall for me height a age , but er we used to have to stand on a box to get it going first , but it , it was just like bellows for your fire you know , wind for that , and we used to pump the wind into the organ also the service . |
| 10 | ‘ How would you like to have to ask for a penny to buy a stamp if you wanted to write a letter ? ’ she would ask . |
| 11 | Thus there could be no economies of scale in case a sleeve cut from one lay of medium blue had to go with a dress cut from another lay of so-called medium blue . |
| 12 | On the bend of the lower landing she had to struggle past a Centurion lounging against the wall eating from a bag of chips . |
| 13 | Similar results were reported by Bowers , Neilman , Satz and Altman ( 1978 ) who observed a bilateral but asymmetrical impairment on finger tapping when subjects merely had to listen to a story knowing that they would subsequently be asked to recall its contents . |
| 14 | Then James had to look at a tray containing 20 objects and , when the tray was removed , see how many he could remember . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Demarcation problems were foreseen if a county court had to deal with a dispute involving men of different counties , or when a " criminal " fled from one county into another . |
| 17 | Her toughest assignment turned out to be the anchor-leg of the intermediate girls relay , when she had to put in a spurt to hold off a determined challenge from Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | I imagine you had to fight like a tiger to secure me even that half of his estate . ’ |
| 19 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |
| 20 | ‘ You remember I had to get in a barman to help with drunks and keep a bit of law and order about the place ? |
| 21 | ‘ And that ties in with what Dippy Martin had to say about a woman entering by the Glynns ’ back door at around 11.30 . ’ |
| 22 | They need her for longer , but there 's no money available ; because of a shortage of funds , they had to rely on a charity to provide a … until they had pit he was in hospital with a chest infection every 2 weeks . |
| 23 | He had to rely on a passer-by to let him out . |
| 24 | The Carey family had to rely on a house provided by a Bengali moneylender to save them from destitution . |
| 25 | The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) . |
| 26 | Graphics applications run very slowly because they have to go through a filter to ensure they do n't crash the machine . |
| 27 | Bereaved pet owners no longer have to go to a cemetery to give their cat or dog a loving send off . |
| 28 | At the hedge marking the foot of the field I have to look for a minute to find a way through . |
| 29 | Well yeah , er if I 'm training you , so prepared it , but , what am I , what have I , what I have to do as a trainer make sure saying ? |
| 30 | The objective helps you to be clear about what you have to do in a bid to get it to come true . |