Example sentences of "he [adv] have [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But he rarely had to spend a lunchtime without a game .
2 He only had to remember the day after Dobson 's resignation .
3 And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point .
4 He just had to get the Shah 's butt outta there . "
5 Erm , he finally had to shut the adult school , not because the prisoners were n't interested in in attending any more , but because the prison officers and the governor were n't able to provide the man-power to cover the existence of that class .
6 Otherwise poor Francis , and he already has to feed the chickens and the cat , milk the goat , herd the sheep .
7 He knew what he 'd find in the wardrobe upstairs if he ever had to search the place .
8 Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’
9 But he still had to break the news to Auntie Jean .
10 He still had to have a medical .
11 But he still had to find a wife .
12 He still had to distinguish the miracles of Christ from the effects of magic , but this he did by stressing that the former were beneficial whereas the latter , especially in the case of witchcraft , could be detrimental .
13 He also had to juggle the practicalities of being coach , going on part-time high-school teaching , and seeing if Otago Cricket Association would continue employing him in the off-season as executive director when he would n't be around for much of the summer .
14 He probably had to make a phone call or something , Ronni decided , her eyes following him as he disappeared inside .
15 If a villager migrates to Bombay and makes a living as a hawker , he probably has to bribe a cop to stay in business and pay off the local mafia don .
16 He often had to pay the wages and expenses of the royal huntsmen out of the issues of his bailiwick .
17 It was inconvenient for a villager to walk that far to report a theft , especially since he often had to make the trip several times if he wanted to complete a prosecution .
18 He had to borrow to pay his troops , and he even had to require the Earls of Derby , Northampton and Warwick to submit to imprisonment in Malines as sureties for the debts the king owed there .
19 Afterwards Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister , declared that President Gorbachev said that " he would continue on the path to reform even if he sometimes had to take a detour " .
20 He seldom had to meet a man twice to be certain of his ground with him .
21 However , when Rousseau 's text is submitted to the questioning scrutiny of the grammatologist , it emerges that , although Rousseau clearly wants to say that melody originates in the passions , he actually has to formulate a definition of it that includes a notion of articulation and differentiation .
22 ‘ Now , as Irish manager , he never has to discuss a contract , never has to sign a player .
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