Example sentences of "have [to-vb] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not schooling but a nasty little trick he has to get the better of me . |
| 2 | One has to make the best of a situation , after all . |
| 3 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 4 | You 'll have to do the same with me . |
| 5 | Soon she would have to use the last of the rushes . |
| 6 | Now see I 'm looking at this here , right , just for fitting in twelve games I mean , I 'm gon na have to start the first of May . |
| 7 | The American owned company is mothballing the plant and at the moment do n't have to repay the millions of pounds of grant aid its received . |
| 8 | I actually believed I was thinking clearly as I plotted ways of fleeing the country before having to pay the thousands of pounds I appeared to owe . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to make the best of it . ’ |
| 10 | She 'd just have to make the best of it . |
| 11 | Usually a limited number of offers can be rejected but there is no guarantee that a subsequent offer will be an improvement , so in many rural districts applicants may have to make the best of either inappropriate housing or housing not ideally located with regard to their workplaces or existing patterns of use of facilities . |
| 12 | You 'll just have to make the best of the situation . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll have to make the best of it , ’ were the Headmaster 's last words on leaving that morning to catch the 9.22 to Victoria . |
| 14 | Legislators have only just passed the 1993 budget , and they will not appreciate having to rearrange the billions in pork they packed into it . |
| 15 | This grandmother was a lasting influence , ‘ because she always insisted that you had to have the best of everything . |
| 16 | Over her supine body Andrew and Horatia 's eyes met and she took the initiative , knowing she had to get the better of the marquis straight away . |
| 17 | But whatever the reason behind it , if there was a reason and it was n't simply someone shaking up names in a box and picking one out here and there , it was like banging your head against a brick wall to attempt to fight against Movement Orders — here she was and she had to make the best of it . |
| 18 | But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it . |
| 19 | The real limitation was time ; many students , although they enjoyed the projects , felt the pressure of looming final examinations and said that they were unable to complete their project to their own satisfaction and had to make the best of a bad job in order to work at other , equally pressing , aspects of the course . |
| 20 | Labour was in government and had to make the best of it , but the party was with a less numerous support bloc than even the Selsdon Heath of 1970 . |
| 21 | we had to make the most of it ! |
| 22 | As military obligations were the only visible tie between Rome and the allies , Rome had to make the most of these obligations lest they became meaningless or , worse , lest the allied armies turn against Rome . |
| 23 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 24 | Informed parents have to choose the lesser of two evils , and usually choose to prevent the birth of the affected fetus , but the decision can sometimes be very difficult . |
| 25 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 26 | ‘ We have to cross the first of the cordilleras according to the map you showed me . ’ |
| 27 | Lawyers in Norway , he suggests , are doing this with regard to legal concepts and linguists have to do the same with regard to linguistic concepts and theories ( ibid . ) . |
| 28 | Sometimes if the the piece of furniture is very large you have to do the same with the top one where there 's another lap there , that one , another piece of beading there , and this will come out as well . |
| 29 | I 'm expecting him to chip-up and two-putt for a five ( the 17th was a par-5 ) , so I 'm thinking we have to do the same in reverse . |
| 30 | You have to earn the right from now on to have holidays , because when you 're on holiday , nobody 's going to be paying you . |