Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 2 | But she had to do the best she could . |
| 3 | But whatever the reason behind it , if there was a reason and it was n't simply someone shaking up names in a box and picking one out here and there , it was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders — here she was and she had to make the best of it . |
| 4 | They expect you to get on They tell you what to do and you had to make the best . |
| 5 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 6 | Therefore , you have to decide the quickest and/or cheapest way of attending the interview . |
| 7 | You have to recruit the best , even if it means fighting an uphill battle to get personnel policies changed , to persuade your boss to pay your people more . |
| 8 | Well , I mean to say you have to make the best of things . |
| 9 | You have to have very good equipment , and you have to have the best start possible . |
| 10 | We did not know what to think last night and we had to fear the worst . |
| 11 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 12 | We have to accommodate the worst cases in bed and breakfast places but there are very few in East Cleveland so some families have to go to other towns like Stockton and Middlesbrough . ’ |
| 13 | Well , there are always possible alternative forecasts that we might make , but on the whole I think we know that we have to decide the best possible forecast that we can give , and , well , when I say ‘ the best ’ , the most erm confident forecast that we can push out erm with the information that we have available . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'm afraid we have to assume the worst . ’ |
| 15 | We have to make the best of what we have . ’ |
| 16 | And then we have to start the biggest hudsoning of all . |
| 17 | That amazes me why people , it 's like a status symbol they have to have the best bloody machine ! |
| 18 | Not content with missing a penalty in the WC Semi final last time , he has to give the fastest EVER international goal in one of Englands most crucial ( potentially ) games . |
| 19 | Was there someone like him ? ‘ … and of course he had to take the greatest possible care . |
| 20 | But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it . |
| 21 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 22 | MICHAEL KINANE , the champion jockey of Ireland , completed the most sensational 24 hours of his career when he took the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe on the British-trained 19-1 outsider , Carroll House , at Longchamp yesterday , but he had to endure the longest 20 minutes of his life before he could be sure the victory was his . |