Example sentences of "[vb base] had [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've had to lift countless bodies from the bottom of cliffs . |
| 2 | But she 's been approached by the gutter press to sell her story of her life with me and I 've had to intercept certain envelopes that have been sent in . |
| 3 | er They 've lost most of their goods , er they 've had to leave enormous amounts of , of , of their personal belongings in , in Kuwait , they 're , they 're not physically in bad shape , but mentally they 're , they 're very anxious and , and they know they 've lost a lot of belongings . |
| 4 | Well we 've brought the two leagues together and amalgamated them and to do this , obviously the old British League was much stronger than the old National League , and we 've had to do some evening out . |
| 5 | What I 've had to do this year , or what I 've chosen to do this year |
| 6 | This is the first time we 've had to do this interceptor cos I did n't even know it was in and I do n't think Dick did . |
| 7 | We 've had to cancel five classes that we set up erm in November . |
| 8 | But with a certain amount of bemusement they 've had to overcome several problems to meet their latest challenge . |
| 9 | And I said , you must realize I 've a small company , and that 's , in one respect that I 've had to send those conditions because you 're failing to meet the agreed thirty days payment ! |
| 10 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 11 | I 've had to edit ten years of your memories , a lot of which were n't edifying . |
| 12 | They really must realise that time and time again being equivocal on defence when you 're on the left of centre means that voters somehow do n't vote for you , and I think they 've had to learn this lesson yet again and I only hope that by the er December elections in West Germany the Social Democratic Party who I 've got a great deal of er sympathy for on most social issues will be firm and clear about a united Germany not being neutral and within NATO . |
| 13 | They 've had to find practical solutions to practical problems . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've had to make amazing demands on them by asking them to take time off work . |
| 15 | Because you 've had to make different assumptions and you 've er decided different ways are different . |
| 16 | Unfortunately we 've had to make this change because of the new points limit which was imposed on us which has meant that our higher points riders have had to go . |
| 17 | You see but I 've had to have this run |
| 18 | So I 've had to have this print run of detailed customer parts by quantity for ninety three . |
| 19 | On the verge of tears , Ragu says ‘ I have had to sell three cows , one bullock and two gunts of land and all my good household utensils to fight this case . ’ |
| 20 | Hence , tests of this relationship have had to use historical data and have had to assume that the distribution of returns has remained stable over time . |
| 21 | Hence the courts have had to evolve various canons of construction which , even more unfortunately , have fluctuated from time to time , thus over-ruling earlier decisions and defeating the legitimate expectations of investors who purchased preference shares in reliance on the construction adopted earlier . |
| 22 | In general , however , the needs of tropical territories meshed into the modern economic order , have meant that the first wave of human invaders in the rain forest have had to take second place to the exploitation of the second wave . |
| 23 | For the last two years I have had to take two tablets a day . |
| 24 | The Brooklyn Museum and Detroit Institute of Art have had to take draconian steps such as staff furloughs , and many smaller museums are in similar straits . |
| 25 | The impact on our business prospects clearly goes beyond the difficult measures we have had to take this year and has demanded a thorough review of all our activities in the longer term . |
| 26 | ‘ I regret that we have had to take this step , ’ said DMF managing director Neil Friar . |
| 27 | However , since then there have been further reviews and proposals which have had to take some cognisance of the creation of the single market . |
| 28 | Crafty commercial banks have tried to win a bit of the business by repeatedly rolling over short-term credits to companies ( though they have had to charge higher rates than long-term lenders ) , or by buying long-term lenders of their own . |
| 29 | It 's absolutely clear that the public body should be doing work for private sector organisations , and er , to my knowledge , Lincolnshire County Council have not been to that particular erm , definition , although other authorities do and I have had to stop other authorities undertaking contracts where they are er private sector organisations . |
| 30 | Councils have had to levy extra money for unpaid poll tax , business rates and interest on borrowing in a bid to balance the books . |