Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 I can show you hawthorn , beech , oak , ash , elderberry and sycamore ; after that I have to take a leaf home and look it up in a book .
2 To do this you have to have a good understanding of the materials .
3 Before we do this we have to apply a mapping function M. The mapping function is important because as I say these wires are connected to these pixels here .
4 Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much .
5 All down there and I had to get a it was that much I had to get a bucket of water , soapy water to scrub it down .
6 And to show we were serious I had to leave a little reminder . ’
7 John Hill says he started racing with a ski boat and then when the engines got bigger he had to have a go at powerboating which he really enjoys …
8 Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on
9 I just want to have the facility to do anything I want , and to be able to do that you have to learn a lot of things that you 're not necessarily ever going to use . ’
10 If you 're sick you have to get a medical certificate .
11 As a woman going onstage you have to have a degree of responsibility . ’
12 I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth .
13 mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes .
14 A number of unexpected things happened and in the middle of it all they had to make a decision about purchasing a property .
15 The effect of several talks with Les has made these two decide to use their home , their lives and all they have to create a new Rhodesia , a fair society .
16 If you want to be strong-willed you have to learn a few basic things that people with good self-control and will-power have managed to pick up .
17 She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws .
18 I was told I would have to have another operation a month later , but first I had to take a course of male hormones called Danazol .
19 That 's right , but first you have to elect a party to power for which bloodsport , and particularly hunting , is not sacrosanct and which represents more truly than at present the wishes of the people it governs .
20 First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban .
21 But first they had to play a series of odd games , working out the rules for each one in turn , playing each one to a conclusion , without cheating or colluding .
22 First they had to prepare a claim for payment for furniture , bedding and carpets from the Department of Health and Social Security .
23 First he has to create a neutral police force .
24 But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time .
25 By 1st December , 1989 we have to compile a Register of all those people in the Oxford City Area who will pay Community Charge/Poll Tax .
26 Hugh le Despenser acquired the hereditary wardenship of Braydon Forest , with the manors of Somerford and Chelworth , from Robert de Keynes , without such royal licence : consequently in 1300 he had to pay a fine in the presence of the Treasurer in order to keep the wardenship and manors , and to convey a life interest back to Robert de Keynes .
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