Example sentences of "[vb base] have [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 I only remember having to take four men to the police station .
2 I remember having to change four magnetos in the air , and on one flight struggling home on one engine and one magneto .
3 In this instance , I do not particularly welcome this debate , because I regret having to make these points tonight in this way .
4 ‘ I do have to ask some questions .
5 Young whelks , however , do have to bore large barnacles .
6 that is a luxury I think erm to be able to do it , if you want to write and earn money , which I do as well as , as socialize while I 'm working erm you 've got to find ways of , of , of doing that and erm just writing books and poetry just would n't , I , I , I could n't survive on that , I really do have to find other ways of , of earning money which is enjoying more and also uses of my skill and erm I would think you 'd need to be in contact with the situation rather than you not knowing , being able to write about that .
7 ‘ We 've had to lift countless bodies from the bottom of cliffs .
8 But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in .
9 er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings .
10 We 've had to cancel five classes that we set up erm in November .
11 But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge .
12 And I said , you must realize I 've a small company , and that 's , in one respect that I 've had to send those conditions because you 're failing to meet the agreed thirty days payment !
13 I 've had to edit ten years of your memories , a lot of which were n't edifying .
14 They 've had to find practical solutions to practical problems .
15 ‘ I 've had to make amazing demands on them by asking them to take time off work .
16 Because you 've had to make different assumptions and you 've er decided different ways are different .
17 Did any of them ever resent having to do particular jobs ?
18 So farmers would have to use this against sheep scab and they 've have to use other dips or sprays against fly strike in the sum sum summer .
19 I would state my own area ; we 've put residents ' parking into the south and the east and the west , but the north , as yet , has not come into it and erm traffic management is carefully monitored and erm developers that come have to provide certain amounts towards management within the area and there have been developments within North Oxford and there has been money available , and we 've not seen any of it yet , and we would , on certain occasions , like to know why .
20 On the verge of tears , Ragu says ‘ I have had to sell three cows , one bullock and two gunts of land and all my good household utensils to fight this case . ’
21 Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier .
22 For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day .
23 The Brooklyn Museum and Detroit Institute of Art have had to take draconian steps such as staff furloughs , and many smaller museums are in similar straits .
24 Crafty commercial banks have tried to win a bit of the business by repeatedly rolling over short-term credits to companies ( though they have had to charge higher rates than long-term lenders ) , or by buying long-term lenders of their own .
25 It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations .
26 I have had to spend three-and-a-half weeks in prison .
27 Scotland 's national coach has been disadvantaged only in the sense that so many of his squad come from one club , Rangers , who have had to withdraw six players because of injury .
28 I do not mean by this that they have had to invent new beliefs , but they do have to adopt the voluntary camaraderie of the sects .
29 But we have had to do those things .
30 But to achieve these advantages , derivatives exchanges have had to devise institutional arrangements to ensure the absence of default risk .
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