Example sentences of "and [adv] have [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
2 | ‘ For your information , I 've still got most of my own teeth and only have to use a walking frame when it 's damp and my arthritis starts giving me gyp . |
3 | Mrs Davison was injured when she jumped from a bedroom window and still has to use a crutch . |
4 | Men who were drunk at market were put in these cells till sober , and then had to pay a penny to get out . |
5 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |
6 | Chesarynth washed , stuffed her torn and dirty hospital gown into the recycling chute and stole another , even brushed her hair ( she checked again ; no tower growing through her skull yet ) and then had to find a place to hide the dead leaves and twigs that had cascaded from the tangles . |
7 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |