Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [to-vb] [prep] order " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened was this : a dog ran out in front of me as I was leaving the car park , and I had to swerve in order to avoid it . |
| 2 | Maybe the question , ‘ What is it that I have to undo in order to help myself ? ’ is more appropriate when it comes to the Alexander Technique . |
| 3 | The mask she has to wear in order to be accepted as an equal is seen to be seriously flawed . |
| 4 | Liz was humiliated by this , rather than enraged , but she knew that she had to qualify in order ever to be free and accepted the conditions . |
| 5 | There is something you have to do in order to receive the gift . |
| 6 | The opportunity cost of something is measured as the sum of all the other things that you have to forgo in order to have that something . |
| 7 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 8 | Tonight , we had to put in order |
| 9 | There are some things we have to assume in order to know anything . |
| 10 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 11 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 12 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 13 | The goldsmiths learnt from experience what proportion of gold reserves they had to keep in order to meet day-to-day demands for gold withdrawals . |
| 14 | The theories are based upon individuals ' perception of what they expect out of work and recognise that individuals place different values on rewards and the effort that they have to expend in order to achieve those rewards . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 17 | Beneath this box was another which he had to tick in order to receive the next three months ' editions of the newsletter . |
| 18 | This perception was heightened by his decision to focus the closing stages of his campaign not in the crucial mid-west " swing states " — those states which he had to win in order to retain his hold on the White House — but in an attempt to shore up his support in hitherto safe Republican states such as Florida , a pattern of behaviour widely seen as indicative of his desire to avoid being defeated by a landslide . |