Example sentences of "[noun] have [to-vb] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool . |
| 2 | The President of the United States has to press one button , the man on the spot another : the radio frequencies are so wildly different that the chances of anyone happening on the right combination are billions to one . ’ |
| 3 | Space , however , was limited and Malc and I and the kids had to share one bedroom and keep praying for a council house of our own . |
| 4 | He also faced the increasingly urgent problem posed by the slow progress of the scholarly revision of the general catalogue of printed books , which , seriously disrupted by the war , had only reached a point early in the letter D. When reporting the matter to the trustees in 1953 , Oldman had to recommend one of two courses : either , having attempted to secure more staff , to press on with revision , or ( as was vigorously advocated by F. C. Francis , the senior of the two keepers serving under Oldman ) , to terminate the work and then reprint volumes photolithographically together with the unrevised remainder , but with accessions from 1905 to 1955 intercalated . |
| 5 | When the achievement of these goals is frustrated , for whatever reason , individuals have to make one of several choices . |
| 6 | Entrants had to pick one of the four sections and develop their design from the abstract ideas that they found there . |
| 7 | Practically every Century Hutchinson rep in London had a van full of books , while the Faber reps had to share one van between several territories . |
| 8 | Every twenty Roslavl' inhabitants had also to contribute to the support of one hungry child in the distant south-east , whilst every five peasant households had to help one hungry adult . |
| 9 | But with the change of rules meaning Warwickshire have to let one of them go at the end of the season , which one will it be ? |
| 10 | We make 200,000 cars a year and export 70,000 of them so there 's not much left for the home market and people have to apply one year in advance to buy one . |
| 11 | But the 26-year-old Edinburgh man had to produce one of the greatest-ever fightbacks in the history of the championship to beat English title- holder , Mervyn King , in five sets . |
| 12 | But the 26-year-old Edinburgh man had to produce one of the greatest-ever fightbacks in the history of the championship to beat English title- holder , Mervyn King , in five sets . |
| 13 | Against a Wales side growing ever more confident and on a genuine curve towards recovery , the world champions had to produce one of their most gutsy defensive displays , with Willie Ofahengaue and Tim Horan outstanding . |
| 14 | So RMC had to send one of its employees , a Mr Stacey , to drive Mr Clewes ' truck , Mr Clewes held a carrier 's licence ( the forerunner of the O licence ) , required by the Road Traffic Act 1960 , but RMC did not . |
| 15 | Patrick had to signal one of the TV cameramen to move back a bit . |
| 16 | Vets had to amputate one of her wings . |
| 17 | The simplest maze is a T-maze in which the individual has to make one directional choice ; by rewarding rats that turn one way rather than the other ( or by giving them an electric shock if they turn in the opposite direction ) , the experimenter can teach them to make a consistent and predictable choice . |
| 18 | Firemen had to cut one of the victims free from the wreckage . |
| 19 | Firemen had to cut one of the victims free from the wreckage . |
| 20 | Most enterprises have to choose one of three options . |