Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings .
2 People had to have all this sex , she knew that ; they had to have it with surprising people and in sometimes surprising ways .
3 and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet
4 All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit .
5 They have to cope them in accepted rites
6 Yeah , yes , but there there 's got ta come a time when they have to test it on human beings .
7 this is a school one , yeah , they have to write them in this little
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