Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is no comfort for a patient who has to wait a few months ( in the past , waiting times in some centres were over two years ) but is perhaps a more rational means of distributing limited health care resources than the random waiting lists used in the past , when patients were given fairly arbitrary degrees of priority . |
| 2 | The ‘ false ’ bus , used for escaping refugees , is carrying Michael ( Paul Newman ) and Sarah ( Julie Andrews ) , American scientists on the run from the security police , to the comparative safety of East Berlin ; it has to keep a few minutes ahead of the real , scheduled bus , so in fact most of the shots out of the bus windows concentrate mainly on the distance between the two buses , gradually diminishing and so raising suspicion . |
| 3 | Even more tragically for the vicar is the fact that for many unchurched families he is simply a cog–in the death machine ; an impersonal professional who has to mumble a few words before the curtains swish and the coffin descends to the fires below . |
| 4 | One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her . |
| 5 | There is no question but that it would have involved tough chairmanship and I am convinced that the Minister — whom I should have expected to chair the conference — would have had to hit a few heads together . |
| 6 | He may have to wait a few years to enter a Tory Cabinet . |
| 7 | I really would have to acquire a few pairs of stockings , and dispense with my poodle anklets . |
| 8 | We would have to meet the same conditions — no more , no less . |
| 9 | Erm what I need to do now is just so I 'm gon na have to cross a few things out . |
| 10 | In other words , ambitious Labour politicians will have to apply the same skills that win national elections to internal party contests . |
| 11 | You 'll still have to do a few miles ? |
| 12 | Erm that the time has now come to accept that we do have to do the same things and it has to be in black and white and it has to be E E C wide . |
| 13 | At this point , we must admit you do have to press a few buttons to get Delta service . |
| 14 | If the table of the guitar has ‘ bellied out ’ you may also have to shave a few millimetres off the bottom of the saddle to achieve a lower playing action . |
| 15 | ‘ I think I 'll have to have a few words with whoever has been saying this . |
| 16 | And some years you 'd probably maybe get a few pounds back and sometimes you would er maybe have to pay a few pounds . |
| 17 | ‘ But then , for those things that are more filled out , to do them properly you 'd really have to get a few musicians out there . |
| 18 | If Fen had n't returned by morning she would have to pack a few essentials , lock up the boat and make her way back to Little Kirkton by public transport , and Fen would have achieved his objective — to be rid of her . |
| 19 | ‘ But I shall have to explain a few things . |
| 20 | Erm other people should have to make the same sacrifices . |
| 21 | Structure and local land would have to follow the same criteria . |
| 22 | That 's to take care of my having to hand a few bribes out as well as supporting myself . |
| 23 | I might have to unbend a few things , though . ’ |
| 24 | Licensed deposit-takers had to meet the same requirements , but did not need to offer as wide a range of services . |
| 25 | She wished she 'd already applied her make-up ; she was still good-looking without it , she knew , but at thirty-eight you had to expect a few flaws . |
| 26 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 27 | We walked on , but now I had to stop every few yards because people were coming up to me ; friends who wanted to introduce other friends , schoolfriends of John 's , an ex-girlfriend , cousins . |
| 28 | He walked so slowly that Piper had to stop every few seconds and wait for him to catch up . |
| 29 | She had to stop a few yards later , sobbing for breath . |
| 30 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |