Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the Chancellor of Oxford University , Roy Jenkins , has to wait outside on the steps of the Clarendon buildings on a cold November morning , when the Sultan of Brunei is in town . |
| 2 | " Heinrich has to stand here on the deck while you drone on , said Tilda . |
| 3 | The young bird has to perch upright on the rim while it grows its feathers . |
| 4 | I 'd probably have to go there on the eighth . |
| 5 | Thus , unlike the others , the mountain goat does not have to walk continuously on the sides of its hooves : when it is leaping or running , the side of the hoof will give , bringing a much greater area of the toe into contact with the ground and greatly increasing the animal 's ability to keep a grip on the icy rock . |
| 6 | He would have to leave early on a sick call , he said . |
| 7 | The only disadvantage is having to stay indoors on a lovely day . ’ |
| 8 | Any attempt to draw up a wider programme would have to rely overwhelmingly on the only information available to the Opposition — the autumn statement in its present form . |
| 9 | If the adverbials in the above examples were not included in the clause , one would have to rely entirely on the context to establish the time of the event . |
| 10 | But I do n't think it really ever I mean there were quite a lot of initiatives like that you know of people thinking of different ways really of of sticking together to combat er you know what I 've been talking about which was smashing unionism and er forcing lower wages really onto the the already low paid , which er really seems to be what Thatcher 's all about you know in order to er curb inflation and create a very divided society where er half the population seem to have to live either on the dole or in in poverty really in in derelict bits of Britain . |
| 11 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 12 | We had to sit outside on the front steps , which were also white . |
| 13 | He had not much enjoyed the campaign , and whether because of this or of the result , he had to go immediately on a two-day walk from Kingham to Oxford to purge himself of his ‘ humours ’ . |
| 14 | I did not often take part in the passeggiata because soon after school ended I had to go home on the tram , but sometimes a schoolfriend of mine called Wilma used to invite me to stay the night if there was a lot of homework to be done . |
| 15 | At the height of the season , July and August , the quantities were enormous , and the carts or trucks had to queue outside on the road . |
| 16 | When he started to his feet he had to lean hard on the arm of the chair while a moment of dizziness passed . |
| 17 | I might have been able to afford to pay them on the spot because of the win , but I still had to get home on the train that night . |
| 18 | ‘ Your place is miles across the city , and I have to come home on the bus every night , so there 'll be no meeting in the evenings . ’ |
| 19 | That was only if on that Thur on that Mon Thursday and Friday if you have to stay away on the Wednesday night and the Thursday night then we cover that . |
| 20 | Well , we 'll listen to what people have to say tomorrow on the phone in . |
| 21 | He should consider pensioners who have to rely simply on the state pension and income support or a small occupational pension . |
| 22 | We have to rely simply on the speculation that we hear . |