Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] have [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
2 | Richard Carew had to keep sentries armed with matchlocks on watch day and night . |
3 | " I could never understand why Aunt Alicia had to rent part of Moorlake , " Sara said . |
4 | The easiest part is to work out what would happen to the waters of the lake itself ; but for this , Dr Hollis had to pool information on rainfall , evaporation , the flow and salinity of the rivers , and the level , volume , and salinity of the lake , over as many years as possible ( in practice thirty ) and feed this into a computer . |
5 | Dismantling the Clunbury coach had to take priority for a while but now our minds are firmly on the bridge project and we would like like to bring it to completion as soon as possible . |
6 | Nancy Harrison has to take life one step at a time … after she found she has osteoporosis , a disease which weakens the skeleton and causes fragile bones . |
7 | GRAHAM Taylor had to promise Paul Ince his England debut to persuade him to get off his sick-bed and fly to Spain . |
8 | Why did his Uncle Elias have to leave America ? |
9 | Also Bryan Robson had to have stiches after being attacked after going to Cantona 's assistance . |
10 | The worst problem was to try to explain quarantine regulations to the black-clothed mothers who would not go away from the main gates and wailed bitterly ‘ Oh ! mio bambino ! mio bambino ! ’ till Mr Rideout had to have Dr Hill 's attendance lest he too became a patient . |
11 | But before the funeral of the body itself took place , the embalming failed and Mr Montague had to recruit others to repair Rowland 's blundering , costing Montague £1 for the surgeon and ten shillings for his assistant . |
12 | There is no precipice except in the painting ( though no doubt Junge could have painted the downward view if asked ) and Deborah Kerr has to act shock/horror , which she is perfectly capable of doing , and does splendidly . |
13 | Finally Princess Jeeta had to help Changez leave the shop . |
14 | The latter figure reflected both the absence of costs due to taxation — UK investors having to pay stamp duty — and the abolition of fixed commissions in 1975 , leading to a cut of around 50% in the commission rates on institutional deals . |
15 | Every clinic in the United Kingdom has to collect figures on the total attendance and the diagnoses and submit them quarterly to the Department of Health . |
16 | By contrast , in the United Kingdom venereology has to form part of the undergraduate medical curriculum and will be taught by a specialist venereologist or genito-urinary physician . |
17 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
18 | In Live and Let Die Roger Moore had to undress Madeline Smith without her noticing . |
19 | In addition to their port duties , Lerwick staff had to cover controls at Sumburgh Airport which was thirty miles south of Lerwick over a bumpy switchback road . |
20 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
21 | Lord Lonsdale had to take refuge in his castle at Appleby while Forster captured the town and , via Kendal and Kirkby Lonsdale , marched on into Lancashire . |
22 | Michael Banks 's charm did n't prevent him from being forceful , and Peter Hickton had to concede defeat . |
23 | Is not it a fact that doctors and nurses in France were on strike recently , and that in Italy patients have to ask relatives to bring in food because none is provided by the hospitals ? |
24 | Steve Cram had to face Sebastian Coe in the 1500 metres , the man who had beaten him in Los Angeles , and Daley Thompson was to meet his three main rivals in the decathlon — Hingsen , Wentz and Kratschmer — in front of their home crowd . |
25 | In north Warwickshire , Stoneleigh Abbey had to move Cryfield hamlet , and Combe Abbey destroyed two hamlets called Smite ; further examples are documented by Robin Donkin . |
26 | Almost every night there was a raid , Rev Kenneth had to join Father O'Sullivan in the local shelters where morale was very low . |
27 | FOUR intrepid Everest climbers had to admit defeat last night as they were beaten back by deep snow and bitter winds on the riskiest bid in history . |
28 | Lady Spencer had to phone Lord Charles for details of the memorial service , and he asked his solicitor to send her a fax . |
29 | After the attack 17-year-old Carl Gent had to undergo surgery at Middlesbrough General Hospital and had to have his jaw immobilised . |
30 | An ambulance had to travel 15 miles from Darlington to attend the man because the two units based in Barnard Castle had to take patients to Darlington Memorial Hospital , he said . |