Example sentences of "[noun sg] have had [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 5 | At Guy 's Hospital the poisons unit has had to set up a psychiatric liaison service to help such patients . |
| 6 | 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 . |