Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself .
2 In fact this is more interesting than you may think because female hyenas have a pseudo-penis , they have , they have a pseudo-scrotum and a pseudo-penis , reasons which are n't fully understood and in order to mate , the male has to insert his real penis into the female pseudo-penis in order to reach her her genital and it 's a bit complicated .
3 The way I wear my hair has to suit my dress . ’
4 The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances .
5 Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) .
6 But Mr Lawson has to show he knows how to do the trick , before he can win his argument , in theory or in the markets .
7 To perform conditional jumps , the computer has to select one from a set of two ( or more ) next micro-instruction addresses .
8 The writer has to gather whatever 's there : sometimes too much , sometimes too little , sometimes nothing at all .
9 The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader .
10 I think for every feeling , no matter how inward and personal it appears , the writer has to find something in the visible world which corresponds to it , to make it visible for the reader .
11 ‘ Every time the ad comes on TV my mum has to tape it and she tells all the neighbours . ’
12 But no , just because they 're black , Quantick has to lick their arses clean .
13 The parish of course has to find its 15 per cent share of this £1 million project and is busy fundraising .
14 Any claim to direct acquaintance with God through immediate religious experience has to explain what the experience is experience of Ayer makes this point in discussing what he calls ‘ mysticism ’ .
15 It also means that they can not feel the contractions , so the midwife has to tell them when to push , which can take longer .
16 While the others are assigned to carvings which were partially damaged David Esterly has to recreate something which was all but destroyed in the fire .
17 A man of such transparent honesty has to have something to hide . ’
18 In the scene that precedes the scuffle that results in Otto 's death , Isabella has to lose her temper and scream at her husband , first in English , then in German .
19 Bernard has to keep them all in his study .
20 Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion .
21 That much may be granted , that critical thinking has to have something to work on if its impact is not to be marginalized .
22 There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid .
23 It is not that the hearer has to decide which of a range of possible interpretations the speaker intended .
24 So Letterman has to burnish his act .
25 If you are good , then the reviewer has to make his name and that will almost inevitably be at your expense .
26 ie the recipient has to acknowledge its status prior to receiving the item .
27 In ‘ The disappearance ’ , Imamu has to prove that he had nothing to do with Perk 's disappearance by finding her dead body in someone else 's house having been murdered by that person and Boo has to risk his own life in order to save that of Scout 's before his most ignorant neighbours realise he 's not a squirrel eating monster .
28 Wigner has to take his friend 's claim to experience as seriously as we take Wigner 's .
29 Here is a man , he 's commander in chief , he 's the president of the United States he 's faced with a , a recalcitrant and difficult general who was sabotaging the purposes of his campaign , extending the campaign beyond proper limits and the president has to show who 's boss , and he showed him who 's boss and he sacked him , great , presidential power in action .
30 There 's no telling how significant an upgrade we 're talking about here but the idea sounds nifty and Weitek has to redeem its Sparc investment somehow .
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