Example sentences of "have [to-vb] three [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomas has had to endure three months of misery , the worst of his career , after the collapse of a £3 million move to Blackburn Rovers which would have set up the Crystal Palace midfielder for life . |
| 2 | So I thought well I do n't have to wait three weeks for mine so next time I do n't feel great I 'm gon na call in and take a couple of days off . |
| 3 | But under the new format , fitness and all-round strength will play a big part , for , with the final tomorrow afternoon , the new county champions will have to win three matches in two days . |
| 4 | We do n't have to do three hours in the morning and three in the afternoon . |
| 5 | There 's not much wrong with having to undo three screws at the back , although those machines with a lever or clip system are obviously easier to get into . |
| 6 | Correspondingly , we shall have to consider three aspects of the delimitation of a lexical item . |
| 7 | ‘ Little Fav ’ ( he seemed everybody 's favourite , with his bouncy , cheerful disposition ) had to wait three years before his next Test appearance , though he continued to bamboozle many a batsman in domestic cricket . |
| 8 | ‘ If we had to wait three months for this money , then fill in a new form to open a different account , just like a new investor in fact , it would not be a bad idea to see if any other society was offering a better rate than the 8.85 per cent offered by ‘ Prime Gold ’ . |
| 9 | Each tenant had to mow three days in autumn , and gather nuts for one day ; each gave a hen at Christmas and ten or twelve eggs at Easter to the warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford Bridges , to make up his farm . |
| 10 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 11 | I was glad that I was n't one of those Portuguese or Italians who only had to go three hours without shaving for there to be a blue carpet on their chin . |
| 12 | The physical demands of the play meant that he had to drink three pints of water off stage during each performance to make up for what he was losing on stage . |
| 13 | I had to walk three mile to work , Doubled up when you got so far down . |
| 14 | And if you had to do if you had , say , three sheets of pink paper because you 've been naughty and done something wrong , you had to fill three sides of pink foolscap paper with writing . |
| 15 | Surgeons had to put three stitches in a deep wound in his shoulder . |
| 16 | The purchaser of records had to send three wrappers for each record , so he had first to acquire them . |
| 17 | He was kicked and punched as he lay huddled in a ball on the ground and had to spend three days in hospital . |
| 18 | I had to spend three days in bed and did n't really kick a ball in the build-up to the Highfield Road game . |
| 19 | However , this process requires great care to get it right and not all printers are infallible — indeed , one printer I used was infallibly fallible and had to make three sets of cards when the first set were turned along the short axis and the second set were guillotined along the fold . |
| 20 | The obvious advantage is that they provide sack-loads of fun and laughter , and the disadvantage is that you sometimes have to wait three hours for them to find their boots in the morning and finish flossing their teeth . |
| 21 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 22 | At present farmers have to wait three weeks between spreading the sludge on their fields and allowing cattle to graze . |
| 23 | It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in . |
| 24 | We used to get exactly the same rebate , the only thing is we have to wait three months for it . |
| 25 | Morgan noted : ‘ We basically have to peak three times in the period : Hong Kong at the end of this month , Melrose [ where the Scots play under the guise of the Co-optimists ] , and the World Sevens . |
| 26 | Rangers , furious they have to play three games in five days because of TV commitments , are refusing to do interviews or allow cameras into their dressing room . |
| 27 | ‘ We have to do three hours in the afternoon , to make up the six I 'm contracted to do . |
| 28 | We also have to run three miles in full kit ( forty-four pounds including rifle and helmet ) in thirty-three minutes ; and demonstrate that we can give first aid , among other tests . |
| 29 | Academics who are planning or revising a curriculum have to address three kinds of questions . |