Example sentences of "[pron] have [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're just confirming that not everyone has to sing the same song . |
| 2 | They are not on the whole involved in direct teaching and , second , each of them has to have a separate viewpoint because the focus of the job is mainly outside that of any school . |
| 3 | All that Ormrod J. is in fact saying is that there has to be a woman in a marriage , because someone has to perform the essential role of a woman in the marriage , and this essential role is to be a woman , biologically so determined . |
| 4 | ‘ Someone has to draw the short straw , ’ says Big Stan , 60 . |
| 5 | Do I have to explain every single thing to you ! |
| 6 | Do I have to use the red one all the time ? |
| 7 | I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil . |
| 8 | Would I have to take a flexi-day to play for England ? … mmm , I wonder ? |
| 9 | Do I have to wear a cheap suit and drive a Sierra to get invited . |
| 10 | Do I have to have a Compact job ? |
| 11 | That 's to take care of my having to hand a few bribes out as well as supporting myself . |
| 12 | That 's a I I had to do a little bit of er adaption work on the on the curtain rail put that on . |
| 13 | Cos I 've already sussed Jim out anyway cos he said it was on my contract saying I had to do the four hours . |
| 14 | I I I had to do the other jobs as I know , but I used to like serving people because I used to like meeting people and sort of study people . |
| 15 | I had to heave the old hag out of the house when I got married . |
| 16 | If I had to design an attractive luxury car that gave the optimum compromise between performance , space , noise level and fuel economy , it would quite probably resemble the 605 SVi . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I had to hold a bloody press conference this morning . |
| 18 | The next day I had to wear a long Kamiz over my trousers and have a scarf covering my head — can you imagine going to school like that … |
| 19 | She fancies herself as another Madonna , so I had to wear a black bra with dungarees over the top — it looked gross . |
| 20 | This meant that on special occasions I had to wear a black pleated skirt , white blouse and black beret , with white socks and black shoes and , when the weather was cold , a black cloak . |
| 21 | And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’ |
| 22 | So I had to watch an earnest and over-long documentary , first made for one of the vid 's information services , about the ruler of Fraxilly . |
| 23 | So I had to act the tortured , self-blaming child , and Eric had to comfort me while my father brooded . |
| 24 | My wife and I were very happy ; we had a house outside the town , though I had to spend a great deal of time in Berlin . |
| 25 | With bamboo canes I find the young plants need to be trained to climb , and I had to spend a precious 20 minutes carefully tying in the leader of each plant with raffia . |
| 26 | And I had to spend a whole hour in a meeting not not an hour , two and a half hours in a |
| 27 | I had to spend the usual time on the beat , in uniform . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 29 | That is why I had to spend the last half an hour intervening and telephoning both Departments to try to deal with the problem . |
| 30 | Nina knows about the lymphoma ; I had to cancel a prearranged lunch at Langans with her as it coincided with my short stay in hospital , and rather than make up an excuse I thought it an opportune time to tell her . |