Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid they 'll have to agree to a change of day , or it 'll be cancelled . |
| 2 | It will then have to contend with a challenge in the British courts over the legal status of Britain 's opt-out from the social chapter . |
| 3 | The jamming and bridging got steeper — with the one big consolation that , strength permitting , you could pop in nuts almost at will — until he reached a ledge which elsewhere he would have regarded as a slab to be climbed , but here seemed a spacious refuge . |
| 4 | Segmentation may have developed as a way of enabling worms to increase their efficiency as burrowers in mud . |
| 5 | IF tomorrow 's semi-final between Liverpool and Portsmouth at Highbury requires a replay , it will have to wait until a week on Monday , because of Thursday 's General Election . |
| 6 | The lemon became real for you ; your imagination tricked your body into believing it would have to cope with a mouthful of pure citrus . |
| 7 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 8 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 9 | Old Miss Mahoney had a little house in Tanner Road , but she had to go into hospital last week , and if she ever comes out , she 'll have to go into a home for old people . |
| 10 | Er and often you 'd come off duty at eight o'clock a and you 'd have to go to a lecture between eight and nine at night . |
| 11 | When I was ill and was told I would have to go on a diet for the rest of my life I felt totally deprived that I was n't going to be able to eat junk food any more . |
| 12 | As far as new managers go , I 'd have to go for a partnership between Mr. Robson & Mr. Hoddle . |
| 13 | ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy . |
| 14 | We will review the decision on an annual basis as our video list grows — maybe producing a series of loop tapes each one covering a particular sector of the market so that customers interested in adult/business English videos do n't have to sit through a section on ‘ watch with mother ’ levels . |
| 15 | The same waves reached Hawaii in the central Pacific less than 5 hours later and must have travelled at a speed of 740 km per hour . |
| 16 | Whitaker may well have parted with a horse of remarkable talent four years ago when he sold U2 to the Edwards family in Shropshire . |
| 17 | She would have to work for a month for that . |
| 18 | A pretty girl and one that should be with a man , not a girl who should have sat beside a solicitor in a High Street divorce court . |
| 19 | In the tense silence which followed this remark , all eyes now turned upon the couple who had been fetched from their bedroom ; the couple who had decided that any further diet of delightful architecture would have amounted to a sort of cultural force-feeding . |
| 20 | They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin . |
| 21 | With pressure from the market , the consultants and the manufacturers all weakened , then , any change in BEA policy would have to come from a change of heart at central headquarters . |
| 22 | You see , you said the girl would have to come from a family of rank . |
| 23 | Their heavy armour-plating may have originated as a way of disposing of the salts derived from their food which accumulated in their bodies . |
| 24 | Allowance will be made for the early payment of a lump sum to the employer which he would have earned over a period of time . |
| 25 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 26 | I could n't blame her , I must have looked like a platoon of Japanese snipers behind all that foliage . |
| 27 | If a comparable relationship between protein synthesis in colonic mucosa and in the whole body existed in man , then colonic protein synthesis would have to increase by a factor of 80 to account for a doubling of whole body protein synthesis . |
| 28 | The smile may have come as a surprise to connoisseurs of the pictures of him which have been issued to the world . |
| 29 | Hardy 's decision , in 1862 , to further his career in London must have come as a surprise to his family and employer — perhaps even to himself since he set out with a return ticket in his pocket . |
| 30 | It may have come as a surprise to some , especially those nations where they have a fixed XV to which they only add as time goes by ’ . |