Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband had to get special permission to marry me . |
| 2 | Eventually this was thought to be precarious and the landowners were bought out by the Bishop 's Castle Railway Defence Trust to which my father had to contribute five hundred pounds . |
| 3 | So when my dad had to ski all the way down to the bottom , while I 'm sitting on the side of this bloody slide . |
| 4 | I was very lucky , though , to be given a key ; some of my colleagues had to rouse both the bodies and the ire of their landlords at this unsocial hour . |
| 5 | For many years , with a total income of two pounds and ten shillings , my mother had to provide all . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm all right — ’ she began , but to her horror had to stop short . |
| 7 | Two of them favoured refugees ; their conditions of work had to be at least as good as those offered to British workers , and their employers had to provide real training as opposed to handing out menial jobs to what was essentially cheap labour . |
| 8 | In 1977 , 22 per cent of female part-time employees were earning less than £15 a week , which at the time defined the boundary of non-employed for social insurance purposes ( that is , neither they nor their employers have to pay national insurance contributions ) . |
| 9 | Minnigrey ( 1851–2 ) , illustrated by ( Sir ) John Gilbert [ q.v. ] , is said to have increased sales of the London Journal to half a million copies , for which newsagents had to send special wagons to the station . |
| 10 | I think that to be a loner and a writer is hell enough , but many would instantly tell me how horrendous it is to work in a factory — 1 did it for three months and loathed it — or to go to their office and stop from biting their nails when their boss has to score petty points off them . |
| 11 | Matilda had told her that their escape had to look genuine if fitzAlan was to believe her story . |
| 12 | One is the children act one will be something on on on the preparation of food , another will be one affecting the way in which charities have to keep registered accounts er , financial accounts which means that an example erm is responsible for registering the accounts of congregations by law . |
| 13 | Mr Thompson said butchers would be unhappy if their meat had to travel long distances . |
| 14 | Even then their lorry had to drive some 70 miles up the coast to Harwich to board a ferry with a cargo of ‘ sand ’ . |
| 15 | I have an annoying habit of packing and then finding something I have overlooked , usually a rod-rest or bank-stick , which means having to undo three straps and unrolling the roll-all . |
| 16 | Formal labour markets in capitalist economies have never been able to provide paid employment for everyone who needed it , and short of allowing wage-labourers and their families of future wage-labourers to starve , either individual capitalists or the state on their behalf had to provide alternative means of support . |
| 17 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 18 | We vagrants have to seem strong when we may feel weak . |
| 19 | Boris Ford thought that Lord Robbins and his Committee had to accept some of the blame ‘ for the ease with which the grey eminences at the Department have been able to enlist radical ministers like Sir Edward Boyle and Mr Crosland in support of policies that are socially and academically reactionary ’ . |
| 20 | A good kung fu man never stands rigidly ; his posture has to appear natural and relaxed . |
| 21 | In one scene of this comedy about university revue artists meeting in acrimony ten years later and which also features comedienne Rita Rudner , Branagh as a once-promising writer reduced to penning an American TV sitcom for his wife had to become drunk at a New Year 's Party . |
| 22 | It was during his second year at Manchester that he was offered the West Indies captaincy for the visit by Pakistan , but decided that his studies had to come first ; he had a strong sense of predestination and apparently felt that the leadership would be his eventually . |
| 23 | The tendency for the ball to keep low , especially , became more marked , and Martin Crowe 's initial decision meant that his country had to bat last on it . |
| 24 | Whatever the outcome , he insists his family has to come first . |
| 25 | If you are very ill , to save your liver having to do any conversion work to convert sucrose , glucose into dextrose , you 're actually given dextrose and saline solution because your muscles can use the dextrose erm straightaway without any further conversion . |
| 26 | Generally we all have too much salt in the diet and our bodies have to work hard to excrete the excess . |
| 27 | This approach is based on the classic problem-solving sequence , but it does n't mean that your answer has to follow that in every detail . |
| 28 | Your stepson has to get used to a whole new family , which is a big shock for him after being an only child . |