Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person has to prove they had a legitimate reason for having the knife in a public place . ’ |
| 2 | He talked as if he never thought in words and had to invent them to describe the shapeless , bulky concepts in his mind as he went along . |
| 3 | the Beverley sisters were on and they said they used to wear very daring clothes and the B B C banned them from showing their navels , cos you 're not supposed to show your navel on television and you could n't say the word , oh yeah Lonnie Donegan was on and he said that he was banned from singing this song er in eighty forty was such a little drip and in it he says we beat the bloody British and they would n't let him sing that because he swore so he had to sing we beat the ruddy British |
| 4 | Then , of course , we had to plaster it using the right kind of plaster . ’ |
| 5 | He had to admit he had a strange effect on her . |
| 6 | This , Tabitha thought , is where I have to let them put a new crystal in the Alice . |
| 7 | Because I 'm on T.V. I have to keep it looking the same and so it 's trimmed every five to six weeks . |
| 8 | Mm , I think it 's been cut and , they have to stretch it to get the actual bits of corn out of the middle of the seed , do n't want the husk . |
| 9 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |
| 10 | I have to say I enjoyed the first programme much more , simply because of the subject we had to discuss on the second one , which was Christmas . |
| 11 | ‘ You have to admit I mix a mean orange-juice spritzer . ’ |