Example sentences of "had to have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 2 | We told him that he had to have a specific programme … that he had to train the hardest that he had ever done in his life . |
| 3 | I had decided that I had to have a partial confidant at the school . |
| 4 | However , he had to have a close feeling of empathy with the horse in the first place to be able to transmit the mental idea . |
| 5 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 6 | In the event he had to have a below-the-knee amputation . |
| 7 | To win an award , each restaurant had to have a healthy eating option on the menu , be spotlessly clean and provide a non-smoking area . |
| 8 | If the heat could not be sufficiently localised to avoid this , then the first solders had to have a higher melting point than the subsequent ones . |
| 9 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 10 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 11 | Bracewell , who received the injury in an accidental clash with Gavin Peacock in the derby game at Newcastle last month , played in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich City , but missed the midweek defeat at Leicester last week when he had to have a slight blockage in his nose cleared . |
| 12 | He had to have a long swig of Bell 's to shift it . |
| 13 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 14 | Where the editor rattled her half dozen strings of large beads and remarked with a toothy grin : ‘ They say it 's the fashion — ’ Where Gerald , the art editor — who was reputed to have a fabulous house on the Chelsea Embankment full of priceless works of art — was so sensitive that he had to have a soundproof office specially built for him , while his assistant Jeremy padded along like his superior 's spaniel , and if Gerald wore a shirt of subtle pink on Monday , his minion would appear in the same shade on Tuesday . |
| 15 | Out of the gentlemen who came into farming at that time [ before mechanization ] only about one in twenty could make it go : the others had to have a skilled man to manage the farm for 'em . |
| 16 | It was not possible to vary this , because playback machines had to have a similar gearing mechanism . |
| 17 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 18 | He had to have a new battery for it , and two of the tyres were n't legal . |
| 19 | Ken said , ‘ I had to have a new banjo . |
| 20 | It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even . |
| 21 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 22 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 23 | We knew we had to have a women-only group . |
| 24 | You think about it , it 's never , I mean we had to have a special fire door put on cos our we go through to our garage . |
| 25 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 26 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 27 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 28 | It was not until 1868 that every train travelling more than 20 miles ( 32 km. ) without stopping had to have an efficient means of communication with the guard and driver . |
| 29 | For plotting a course you had to have an accurate speedometer . |
| 30 | My toes went gangrenous and I had to have an arterial bypass . |