Example sentences of "he have [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Thompson would have taken his class , but he has to deputise for Miss O'Neill who is ill .
2 Beyond that he has to rely on hand tools — planes , chisels , reamers , scrapers and the odd bicycle inner tube ( ‘ great for holding a psaltery in shape while working on the joints ’ ) .
3 Simon , whose medal in the individual event was Britain 's first for 84 years , is now so hard-up he has to rely on drinks from mates and his girlfriend .
4 We have liked him for being into free speech and free love , and for what he has to say about convergences of the two , and about the curbs which revolution and its regimes has placed on them .
5 Gandhi acknowledged this and what he has to say about brahmacārya has to be taken as applying in the main to those who are able to accept the discipline involved in resolving to enter the third stage of life .
6 Writing out notes helps to fix items in the memory , but it is not a good idea to use notes in a TV interview , as one of the effects of television is to diminish the speaker 's authority if he has to refer to notes continually .
7 As a jailbird he knows he is no different to the cons he has to live with night and day — reputations mean nothing here .
8 A disabled person might have to pay more for his holidays because he has to go to places where there are additional facilities available .
9 Sadly , until his behaviour becomes more reliable he has to remain at arm 's length .
10 He does what he has to do in situations of moral dilemma , though he knows it to be wrong , because to act differently would have been wrong also though not in the same way .
11 Some pay an additional disturbance payment to compensate the expatriate when he has to readjust to life in Britain on his return .
12 He knows he is doing wrong but it is just that , in certain situations of moral dilemma he has to act in ways that involve violence .
13 He has to turn to poetry .
14 And just think of the calculations involved when a fielder runs to catch a cricket ball — he does n't necessarily realise he is doing it but he has to work out how high the ball is , how fast it is travelling , its precise direction and how quickly he has to run in order to catch it .
15 A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes .
16 He has to come to terms with past losses — the loss of security and trust in adults , and the loss of innocence .
17 I mean if he has to come on Monday it wo n't be too bad .
18 And now he has to stay to July , does he ?
19 When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad .
20 This is the sum which the Lord Chancellor has indicated he has to find by way of savings in the legal aid scheme to meet Treasury targets in 1993/4 .
21 Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level .
22 Why does he have to go through Mordecai ? ’
23 Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction .
24 And Eliot lets us know that he had to argue with Pound , who wanted in some items that Eliot excluded , and wanted out some items on which Eliot insisted .
25 He had to go to Germany in July to talk to students and others about embalming , and was talking to Poland .
26 Suddenly he knew what he had to do : he had to go to Monument Hill and see the broken earth for himself .
27 Except when he had to go to sea .
28 He had to go to Wales , son went to Wales to pick it up yesterday
29 On a Saturday morning in June of 1922 I called for him but before we could play he had to go to Redmans , the butchers in Winchester Street , for his mother .
30 So he had to go to Queen Elizabeth , the court , to ask for a charter .
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