Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [to-vb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents , the girl had to stay at home until her marriage . |
| 2 | Then the children start to arrive and the husband has to stay at home at nights with the wife and help look after them . |
| 3 | ‘ MANY as are the virtues of the Moon under Water I think that the garden is the best feature , because it allows whole families to go there instead of Mum having to stay at home and mind baby while Dad goes out alone . |
| 4 | J. Percy Bruce chose for his equivalent ‘ law ’ , and so incorporated into the Neo-Confucian terminology itself the wrong answer to the question ‘ Are there laws of nature in China ? ’ , a misunderstanding which Joseph Needham in elucidating the concepts of Chinese science had to analyse at length . |
| 5 | To add to their misery , the flight was delayed when the plane had to land at Belfast because of bad weather . |
| 6 | One night we had a crash landing , when a plane from another air field had to land at Bourn in a bit of a hurry , having been shot up rather badly on the way back from Germany . |
| 7 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |