Example sentences of "[noun] have had [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plateless bolt-on necks are the order of the day , and the Koreans have had to work out a strange method of extending the neck an extra step past the end of the fingerboard to try to keep the Rickenbacker look ( you might be able to spot this feature on the black one , between the neck and middle pickups ) . |
| 2 | For the last year , charity shops have had to cut back the number of toys they sell drastically because of new legislation . |
| 3 | Well I think it 's er down to the competitive tendering process where the County Council has had to put out the cleaning contracts for schools to tender . |
| 4 | When Boyd was a child of eight , he and his father had had to sit out a tornado while visiting a German friend who had settled in Kansas . |
| 5 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 6 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 7 | The bus , therefore , no longer goes along Summerfield terrace , with the result that 50 old-age pensioners have had to draw up a petition to try to persuade the public transport company to reinstate the two-way pattern . |
| 8 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 9 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 10 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |
| 11 | A wine bar called Fox 's had opened up a short walk away in Church Street , causing such amazement that the Observer printed an article about it . |