Example sentences of "[vb base] had [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even this morning I 've had to sell a first-rate Hockney print for £6,500 , which cost £5,540 seven years ago , which with the cost of money represents a loss of about £5,000 . ’ |
| 2 | All too often women say to me , basically they 've had to fake a sick line themselves because their mother or their father |
| 3 | Mrs Postance 's opposite number at the Haywards primary school at the other end of town , Mike Palmer , talks of ‘ tooling up ’ for the undertaking : ‘ I 've had to use a large slice of my in-service training budget to release staff during the school day for quite substantial periods to match up their plans for the following year . |
| 4 | Sorry you 've had to send a new Governor after all . |
| 5 | we 've had to dig a little bit out |
| 6 | The old erm violence in society was dealt with largely with the Public Order Act of nineteen thirty-six , but recently we 've had introduced a new Act through Parliament . |
| 7 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 8 | Erm , but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment than we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non common and we have had to take a larger share of the cost of those equipments than originally planned . |
| 9 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 10 | Local authorities have had to implement a controversial Act , involving a considerable increase of responsibility for them , at a time when the creation of the new social services departments preoccupied the child care and social work staff . |
| 11 | We have had to spend a disproportionate amount of money on marketing and selling . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Unfortunately we have had to disappoint a large number of capable girls , causing the governors a great deal of anguish . |
| 13 | Over here the ball turns and our batsmen have had to learn a new technique in five weeks . |
| 14 | But they have had to overcome a surprising amount of resistance to the idea that nurses should be involved in research , chiefly from within the nursing profession itself . |
| 15 | They have been spied on by the paparazzi , betrayed by trusted servants , embarrassed by indiscreet friends , and have had to endure a constant torrent of innuendo , gossip , lies and half-truths in newspapers , magazines and books — none of which are they able to repudiate . |
| 16 | So the reality is that , in the last seven months , the Taylors have had to make a radical reassessment of family expectations . |
| 17 | For those Celtic supporters who have had to tread a thin line between desperation and devastation this season , there was no inclination to do anything other than wallow in it being their team who had put an end to Rangers long , unbeaten run . |
| 18 | I have had to find a provisional title for the venture to use in my various requisitions for staff , accommodation , etc . |