Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [pn reflx] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 2 | Now what do you reckon is the most difficult … the most dangerous job in sport … boxer … jump jockey … racing driver you could argue all night could n't you … what about a chap who has to protect himself from head to foot … gets fired at … and skates on ice … in other words the netminder in ice hockey … see for yourself in our Friday Feature |
| 3 | Of course while you 're on the Continent , you do n't have to restrict yourself to alcohol and tobacco . |
| 4 | By the following year , as a result of mortgage and foreclosures , the manifest favouritism shown to French squatters and the pressures of population , peasants in Tonkin were having to feed themselves on average from the product of just over one-third of an acre of padi per head : in some localities barely a fifth . |
| 5 | Either it will spread , cancer-like , to destroy mankind , or else mankind will have to rid itself of communism . ’ |
| 6 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 7 | At the Opera de la Bastille they do not have to veil themselves in shame because they are resonant and reasonable : that is the message . |
| 8 | Having to watch himself on screen as an old man , did it cast up worries about Gibson 's own appearance ? |
| 9 | Domestic and personal correspondence from the same period is extremely rare , which is fortunate for the collector , who will not have to bother himself with palaeography , the deciphering of ancient hands . |
| 10 | Lee felt a wave of self-pity in response , so that she had to brace herself with pride . |
| 11 | They had to provide themselves with powder cans and the loss of any of these items , including drilling jumpers , meant they had to replace them . |
| 12 | The history of the royal succession shows time and again that a prince had to prove himself in order to be sure of inheriting a kingdom , and the process of building up a following and prestige was likely to cause some conflict . |
| 13 | She had to make herself at home , somehow . |
| 14 | had to throw myself in front of a speeding car ! |
| 15 | You sometimes have to pinch yourself in order to remember the fact , but accidents even happened before there were aeroplanes . |
| 16 | I just have to plug myself in man . |
| 17 | You can actually do really big stretches , although I 'm careful to warm up before I play and cool down slowly again afterwards , because I get tendonitis and I have to keep myself in shape . |
| 18 | First , however , I have to declare myself in favour of the general principle of a national curriculum , which has been described by Kenneth Baker as the central feature of the new Act . |
| 19 | So all the fish that use this system , whether in the rivers of West Africa or in South America , keep their bodies as stiff as ramrods and have to propel themselves by undulation of their fins . |