Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 2 | Essentially , they are glorified leisure centres — Butlins for the Costa Brava generation , a way of feeling like you 're abroad without having to wait for three hours at Gatwick Airport . |
| 3 | She was pale but more beautiful than ever , and her dignity was pronounced in spite of having to cope with three boys . |
| 4 | The data transmission path of this system has proved tortuously slow , having to pass through three programs each way and down a 1200 Baud communication line ; however , it does prove the principle . |
| 5 | Companies adopting the European statute would have to choose between three versions of worker participation . |
| 6 | Well that was , that was the crew 's job you see cos you used to have , they used to be erm , they used to be the master of the ship , my father , and they would still have a mate , he 's dead and gone and there was myself one side on the starboard side on a winch and we had two men right aft on the after winch and they used to have to look after three chains . |
| 7 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 8 | Saints again struggled to get going in the second half and had to wait until three minutes from time for their final try through Hunte after numerous handling mistakes . |
| 9 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |
| 10 | We had to go on three trains . |
| 11 | To reach us , as I have said , Boy had to walk past three shops with windows . |
| 12 | ‘ I was taken to a room which I had to share with three others , two Indian women and one black man , ’ she told me . |
| 13 | They had to settle for three consolation points , leaving them second three points below Gresford . |
| 14 | It was in 1946 at the Stockholm Opera as Agathe in Der Freischütz , which she had to learn in three days . |
| 15 | One of the major qualities of Michael 's performance was that he had to speak in three accents : one way to his troops , as their superior ; another way to the officers , his superiors ; and a third way to the German who had captured him . |
| 16 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 17 | Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery . |