Example sentences of "have [to-vb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 for the sea to be judged to be the same colour the painter has to paint it different colours .
2 The writer has to give it these things to make it real for the reader .
3 We 're not asking R P G two has to have it both ways if if that idea is er is there at all .
4 If you are a professional grower , this bud is merely one among thousands , and you will not have the time to fuss and mollycoddle it — the head comes off in one go , and the bud has to take it full blast .
5 Others have had to do it other people in other countries .
6 I think it is very sad they 've had to do it that way .
7 If we 'd a carried it on for say this time of the year now you with this erm Whitsun Holiday now , we 'd have had to do it seven days a week , cos you 'd have to be there Saturday and Sunday to stop anything going in there .
8 We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime .
9 ‘ Unless people prove they want the play-scheme and come to the meeting on Thursday night , we will have to cancel it this year . ’
10 Yes yes of co of course I was , but i could n't get hold of Dr and I thought well we 're gon na have to try it this way anyway at some stage .
11 ‘ We 'll just have to give it another go . ’
12 Well we 'll have to watch it this week and if er
13 Right , so , if it was going to cost me twenty pound a month for fifty thousand pounds worth of life cover , and I wanted to pay it annually , I 'd have to pay it twelve times , I 'd have to pay two hundred and forty pounds .
14 I 'll have to pay it back Friday . ’
15 ‘ If INCUBUS is going to become the biggest organization in Europe , you 're going to have to hit it twenty-five hours a day .
16 ‘ I 'm sorry you had to hear it this way .
17 So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention .
18 I had to do it that way did n't I ?
19 Caspar and Fenella had to explain it four times , and a fifth for Flaherty , who was still recovering from his overindulgence in the matter of the mulled wine .
20 I mean we 're not allowed as many holidays as , as most of them , but then again it was starting up so we just had to take it that way .
21 No , it 's er by the way , instead of every year now it 's , I 've to make it two years .
22 In Third World countries you can have problems with water supply when women have to carry it long distances , and even in the rainy season , wells can become contaminated . ’
23 I have to put it this way but there are n't any alternative .
24 But if you phone up and they 've got one they reserve it for you but you have to get it that day , were n't it Bev ?
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