Example sentences of "[pron] having [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 2 | Erm first of all er would you , if er if you became Euro candidate er the unequivocally support the objectors to this motorway and secondly , would it be an embarrassment to you having to take the same line as Gary on the matter . |
| 3 | I do n't envy you having to tell the dear lady that she 'll have to spend the rest of her holiday with her wrist in plaster ! ’ |
| 4 | Oh why you 're having to speak , you having to have the other people talking to each other , the people who speak to you |
| 5 | ‘ Those at the power station , for instance , live in hostels at the plant during their working week to save them having to make the three or four hour journey each way from Shenzen where their homes are . |
| 6 | Anyone having to pay the full personal Community Charge can claim community charge benefit . |
| 7 | This profound asymmetry in the structure and evolution of the world economic system provides the essential background to the more recent migrations of black communities to Britain in the post-Second World War period , for one of its main effects has been the creation of pools of under- and unemployed workers in circumstances of poverty and restricted opportunity in the Third World , who find themselves having to undergo the painful dislocation entailed by migration and travel thousands of miles in search of work . |
| 8 | Wolfgang Hildesheimer ( 1985 , p.201 ) , in his ‘ warts-and-all ’ study of Mozart , suggests that music offers similar opportunities : ‘ Why else should we need music but for its ability to satisfy our longing for emotional experience , without our having to undergo the deep tumult at its root ’ . |