Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [to-vb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Brent , council leader Merle Amory had to organize an emergency meeting of the pension-fund investment panel . |
| 2 | With the Corsair now in the UK , Lindsey had to find an operating base for it . |
| 3 | Miller had to have an illness which was visible , painful , incurable , distasteful to others and yet not even remotely acceptable as a ‘ status ’ ailment , such as duodenal ulcers , a disorder rather too fashionable among business executives , mass-communicators , literary agents and other money-grubbing vandals . |
| 4 | With Alan Kernaghan suspended , and newcomer Jon Gittens not eligible , Lawrence has to find an answer to the centre half problem . |
| 5 | Ruth Baird continues to teach a strong Edinburgh class but as a result of her unplanned and completely unsponsored double somersault down a highland waterfall , Muriel Jessop had to have an operation to deal with a torn cartilage and frayed ligaments in her knee . |
| 6 | To exploit his stature , de Gaulle had to create an organization from scratch , fend off rivals to his legitimacy , and dodge the attempts of his " allies " ( he used quotation marks on occasion ) to remove him . |
| 7 | But Ptolemy had to make an assumption that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as other times , in order to predict these positions correctly . |
| 8 | But in order to predict these positions correctly , Ptolemy had to make an assumption that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times . |
| 9 | Mr Wray had to undergo an operation . |