Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno .
2 He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls .
3 He argued that he has to persist with his Euro flops as he tries to qualify for the World Cup .
4 You ca n't use extra national insurance contributions in one year to make up a shortfall in another ; each year has to stand on its own .
5 For example , written language typically has to express things more explicitly , because it has to stand on its own .
6 The result is that Dublin has to stand on its own constant , as well as temporary , merits .
7 He has to come of his own free will .
8 On the personal front she has to choose between her one-time fiancé Paul whom she loves but can not marry because he is Catholic and she is divorced , and Bernard , a fellow philologist who attracts her physically but is selfish , emotionally dishonest , and married .
9 Chemistry has to look to its public image — people are not certain whether it is a good thing or not .
10 However , there are more than 50 million people in this country , and HMG has to look after them all .
11 They buy from it and the design group has to look after its own destiny and its own profitability .
12 ‘ Fishermen from all over the Community have been arguing the same case — that the commission has to look after its own — and the council of ministers has singularly failed to do so . ’
13 ‘ Roxie , ’ she would say , ‘ every one of us has to look after their own .
14 Each science has to do with its own genus , or ‘ kind ’ , which is divided by ‘ differentia ’ into various species .
15 It has to do with his own mutilation .
16 Lone inventors are by no means all nutters , but we can sympathise with anyone who has to deal with them all the time .
17 A compositor is employed as a compositor ; a machine-minder ( printer ) likewise has to keep to his own job ; the print union is a strong one — and very jealously guard the many gains won by them for their members .
18 A secretary or executive has to plough through them all to fulfil every media request .
19 But although we may have a spiritual or mental knowledge of the pregnancy , the actual physical development of the baby in the womb has to lie beyond our conscious control .
20 The hardest lesson for Gilly to learn is that she and nobody else is responsible for her own actions and that she has to live with her own mistakes .
21 She has to think of her younger sisters , her father may clamp down on what little freedom they had previously .
22 The practitioner has to get beyond his accustomed , Western modes of thinking even to glimpse beneath the surface and understand what kung fu is all about .
23 This is one of the reasons she works well with tasks she has to achieve on her own .
24 If the confrontation between Nazareth and Rome looks like it 's becoming unproductive , the teacher can come out of role and ask the children to reflect on what has been happening — perhaps through discussion , perhaps through a short piece of writing ( a diary entry , a letter to a friend , a sketch representing how the townspeople feel about the power relationship , or — shifting the perspective — the report that the Roman has to make to his commanding officer ) .
25 They had recently had to cope with her elder sister becoming pregnant .
26 Mr Gillman had had to attend to his own patients .
27 Your application will be even better supported if you can give examples of when you 've had to work on your own , as when decorating your new house or when preparing the accounts of a small business whilst at home with your children .
28 ‘ If I tell — they will kill Liam and point out that he 's had to suffer for my stubborn principles .
29 In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information .
30 He had been twenty-one when he died of leukaemia , and I had had to help with his last offices and was then sent to escort his body to the mortuary .
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