Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
| 2 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 3 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 4 | But if you send an estimate you more or less have to say what you 're moving as well because if there 's more than that and you do n't put down what you 're moving then you 're p stuck with the estimate really and in p practice that 's what usually happens , you give an estimate and then you do it for that price . |
| 5 | Or even have to try . |
| 6 | The practical difficulties of nursing a sick relative can be very great , but Pitkeathley agrees that it is often the emotional upset of having to bath a previously fastidious mother , or pretend your father has spilt his tea when the bed is wet , or simply having to make all the decisions for a once strong parent , which cases the most upset . |
| 7 | In the absence of a firm formula , the parties will either tie themselves to a fixed price for the duration of the agreement ( which is clearly usually undesirable ) or else have to provide an agreement with a shorter duration , but with an option of renewal if new prices can be agreed . |
| 8 | Likewise , Newton 's ‘ established ’ groups built up a ‘ close set ’ of relationships with public officials in Birmingham ( 1976 , p. 85 ) , while his poorly established groups found it difficult to gain access to decision-makers and thereby had to resort to demonstrations , petitions and so on which only served to make them even more unacceptable . |
| 9 | I got some more sedatives in anticipation , and eventually had to turn him out when he decided one night that enough was enough and kicked several large holes in the stable wall . |
| 10 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 11 | Mitchell was in second place at the end of lap one , then developed tyre trouble and eventually had to drop out . |
| 12 | He told me about the sheer quantity of submissions that the Review received and regretfully had to reject , and spoke admiringly of much of the material that does come to him . |
| 13 | The stunts became more daring and , in one episode , Crawford found himself literally playing with fire , when what looked like fireworks were attached to the back of his jacket and suddenly had to start exploding . |
| 14 | I maintained a straighter course now but perpetually wanted to stop , and so had to ration myself to two minutes rest in every fifteen , and ten minutes on the hour . |
| 15 | He was also jaundiced and so had to wear a hood to protect his eyes and lie naked under a constant bright light . |
| 16 | This was why they had n't caught on to the idea of the ground being curved , not flat — and so had to invent an imaginary force to explain what was going on . |
| 17 | Towards the end of his life he told Osbert Sitwell ; ‘ Any talent I may have was due to a long illness as a boy , which afforded me time to think , and subsequent ill-health , because I was not allowed to play games , and so had to teach myself , for my enjoyment , to use my eyes instead of my feet . ’ |
| 18 | Try as Mrs Crump did — a sidle into the hallway , an uncharacteristic visit to the stables , even a late saunter down the road towards the village and the lake — she could not engineer an early encounter with the glamorous newcomer and so had to keep her patience until the morning . |
| 19 | Perhaps the bird had been attacked by others , and so had to drop what he was carrying . |
| 20 | The reason was that they could not resolve ambiguity between competing lexical interpretations on a word-by-word basis , and so had to maintain possible interpretations in a representation that was separate from the lexicon . |
| 21 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 22 | If the patient can not use the lexical procedure to read , say , pint , and so has to fall back upon the non-lexical procedure , a reading error will result : pint will be read with a short i ( as in mint ) . |
| 23 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 24 | Green gave an interesting account of how this fine bird suffered at the hands of the sheep farmers who had lost lambs and so had to destroy it . |
| 25 | Unfortunately we do not always have enough stories from the diocese to fill the space available and so have to use material from other sources . |
| 26 | Workers indicated that they would like to be able to take their holidays without being obliged to find a replacement and so have to do double duty before or after their holiday . |
| 27 | The couple can not use physical contact to avoid conflict , and so have to make friends , talk to each other and negotiate in a non-physical way . |
| 28 | She set off boldly towards the fence and only had to put her feet down speedily once . |
| 29 | Luckily , I was put on their reduced fee scheme and only had to pay six pounds a session . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |