Example sentences of "having [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any petty misdemeanour resulted in the offender having to report to the Corporal of the day with his entrenching tool after evening ‘ appel ’ . |
| 2 | Referring to IBM 's establishment of a PC standard in 1981 , he said that other manufacturers were selling cars without having to invest in the highway . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd better go in anyway or we 'll end up having to sit in the shade for the rest of the week . ’ |
| 4 | If effective civil and political citizenship were to be enjoyed in Britain , then the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government and the extraordinarily clumsy device of having to appeal for the protection of his or her rights to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg . |
| 5 | For example , you may ignore her persistent whining for attention after one constructive attempt to distract her by suggesting a pleasant and diverting activity ( after all , you re having to see to the baby ) . |
| 6 | Ideally , to be honest I would like a diamorphine maintenance course , but I do n't know if that 's possible these days to pick up a prescription once or twice a week and be able to do it that way instead of having the hassle of having to go on the street . |
| 7 | ‘ He was speaking to himself rather than to me at the time , but I recall Jeff muttering under his breath something about having to go to the mainland soon … ’ |
| 8 | Depositors are issued with cheque books which enable them to spend the money directly without first having to go to the bank and draw the money out in cash . |
| 9 | It 's where to pay to money , and you 're having to go to the bank manager , what would he ask for ? the business plan , and you 'd have to draw that up and do all the and you have to impress the bank manager before he will even consider an overdraft facility , or whatever , a loan . |
| 10 | right we 'll get back here then and , not having to go to the post office now will be a help cos that really is the other end of town in n it ? |
| 11 | And we had erm we , there was a few changes during that time , we used to get troops coming in and occupying the classroom , and we maybe , at the very early days I can remember having to go to the Street School and also the Street Hall which belong that was a church hall . |
| 12 | And the others do n't care either , only Hoomey , because of his Bones having to go to the knacker 's . ’ |
| 13 | Having to go to the end of the road , well it 's daft now . |
| 14 | And Mrs Richmond having to go into the hospital ’ — it seemed to Gilly that there was a long , thoughtful pause before the caseworker went on — ‘ for her nerves . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Can we get to the Cove without having to go into the garden ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | the weeds are coming up and I 'm having to go under the ground cover and get them . |
| 17 | If you are close , you can appreciate the other 's character without having to go through the anxiety of behaving that way yourself . |
| 18 | It means that , depending on the context , I can communicate something subtly different from what I intended before without us first having to go through the rigmarole of defining new terminology to extend the language . |
| 19 | GCCS made particularly good progress breaking the Japanese naval attaché cipher traffic , both in London and elsewhere in Europe , since many foreign cable companies routed their signals through repeater stations in places like Malta where GCCS could acquire all interesting traffic without having to go through the charade of obtaining a warrant . |
| 20 | Thus a hard-worked journalist could receive a press release by fax , use FAXgrabber to convert the faxed release to text , and then place it into his story without having to go through the process of re-typing much of the information . |
| 21 | Wh when you put people on the patches for the first time because the hormone goes straight into the system , rather than having to go through the gut , |
| 22 | The demands of people at risk of suicide or of harming others must always take precedence over the quietly distressed but passive long-term sufferer , and it is often better , therefore , to relieve mental health workers dedicated to the particular needs of people with long-term problems from having to cope with the emergency short-term demands of new patients . |
| 23 | But I mean a mother that could n't sleep all night , and get up the next day , having to cope with the family , erm you know , thing things like that , they 're very difficult . |
| 24 | Ideally , of course , there should be the choice , especially for islanders having to work on the mainland who want to come home for the weekend . |
| 25 | William had not been happy at having to work through the night and at weekends and the tasks he had had to perform were not always pleasant . |
| 26 | Thousands of babies are born with some form of birth defect and most have immediately to go into incubators with doctors and nurses having to work round the clock to give them intensive care . |
| 27 | The firm offers single-source support on all the products , so customers can pick components that best suit their needs , without having to worry about the logistics of supporting products from multifarious vendors . |
| 28 | The Cabinet broke up without reaching a final decision , only to be warned by John Major that it risks having to meet at the weekend . |
| 29 | But clearly the it forms two purposes , one is to remove the er the through traffic but also it it forms a purpose of redistribution of the traffic such that er there are er benefits er of getting er traffic off the A sixty one which for example is headed for the for the northern part of Harrogate and that that can come in from the South , it can go up to the A fifty nine and then come back into the northern part of Harrogate without having to pass through the centre of Harrogate . |
| 30 | Above all , searchers wanted to go straight to records and were irritated by having to pass through the display of the classification schedules . |