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 .
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