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

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1 Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone .
2 A user of a BM has to live with whatever the BM tells him , which will be correct for most of the time but which is never totally reliable .
3 I 've never met you but I 've had to think about you a good deal during the past few weeks , mainly because my young daughter Jean has been unable to think of anything or anyone else !
4 A a a member of staff may feel that they want to say something about a kid , and it does not necessarily have to agree with what the kid
5 So we 'd have to go through it the next day anyway .
6 ‘ Everything will be happening legally so kids wo n't have to worry about what the police are going to stop them doing on the M25 or wherever .
7 oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through .
8 And he 'd have to look at it every day .
9 Students may attempt forced economies on diet or take up casual part-time employment to balance their budgets , but you will have to assess for yourself the degree to which these actions may detract from your physical well-being and ability to study ( see also Chapter 15 on fit for studying ) .
10 He 'd have to care for her a lot more than he does to do that . ’
11 You do not have to think of something every time that the film stops , but please try to describe as many possible scenarios as possible .
12 But one does have to think about it a bit !
13 But if someone asked me what the " oldest tree in the park " meant , or what " oak " meant , or what the meaning of the sentence as a whole was , I would have to explain to him the meaning of these expressions with the help of some other expressions which he could understand .
14 But surely , she reasoned , where there could be no reason , surely sex does n't have to bring with it the pain of need , longing , the fear of rejection ?
15 I would hate to have to explain to him the true state of affairs .
16 ‘ Clarice Cliff was a hard taskmistress — I had to report to her every day — but she took great interest in the progress of young trainees and her husband , Colley Shorter , the chairman of her company , arranged for me to take day classes at Newcastle College of Art when I was doing National Service with the RAF stationed in Northumberland , ’ he recounted .
17 So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally .
18 We had to work on it a great deal .
19 In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry .
20 During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant .
21 But she did let slip that she had to curtsey to her every day and say : ‘ Good morning Your Highness . ’
22 So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith .
23 I had to convey to her a slight warning , though … ’
24 They travelled extensively , but he had to pander to her every whim .
25 In spite of all the centuries which he had to learn about it the traditional ship-wright seemed to be unable to understand about shear .
26 Yeah , one look at him and even I had to say to myself the ladies , the poor ladies .
27 Yeah he do n't eat too many he likes he like they but he wo n't erm I had to say to him the other night .
28 by er , mind you they 'd always been children that had had to fend for themselves a lot , the only sad thing
29 This is part of the normal regime — they have to arrange among themselves the cleaning , etc. , and also have to do other manual jobs from time to time for example yesterday , they all had to go out and plant castor oil seeds in the campus grounds .
30 You ca n't defy the world as you can your parents ; you have to work with it a little — and be polite to it . ’
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