Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Cardigans and coats are difficult because your child has to approach them from the wrong side . |
| 32 | As we saw earlier , the extreme emotions of the horse are quite clear as they involve the whole horse ; but the same emotions in a more moderate form , or of lesser intensity , like apprehension or annoyance , will reveal themselves differently in different horses ; and the horse owner really has to learn them from the movement , gestures , and noises that the horse makes , and the context in which they are made . |
| 33 | The industry concerned is the in-flight catering business which in the UK alone , produces many thousands of meals 24 hours a day every day and has to transport them at chill temperatures from the flight kitchens to individual aircraft , quite often with additional problems resulting from flight delays and so on . |
| 34 | I 'm the female lead , the hero has to get me at the end . |
| 35 | As an agriculturist he has to take him in the garden for practical training . |
| 36 | Do n't forget Louis 's pills , he has to take them with his food . |
| 37 | He even has to take them with him to work . |
| 38 | All this is so rich , heady and fast-moving that the viewer has to take it on the narrator 's trust . |
| 39 | In The Young Stepmother ( 1861 ) Charlotte M. Yonge represents Mr Kendal as a positive recluse within his study ; and even when his lively second wife contrives to drive him out of it into her morning-room , she has to prevent him from turning that room too into a ‘ literal boudoir ’ , by which she seems to mean ‘ a place to sulk in ’ . |
| 40 | Therefore the unit also has to prepare them for reintegration into school life . |
| 41 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 42 | I thought you said she 'd to cash it at Barclay . |
| 43 | [ Philip Leapor ] informs me she was always fond of reading every thing that came in her way , as soon as she was capable of it ; and that when she and learnt to write tolerably , which , as he remembers , was at about ten or eleven Years old , She would often be scribbling , and sometimes in Rhyme ; which her Mother was at first pleas 'd with : But finding this Humour increase upon her as she grew up , when she thought her capable of more profitable Employment , she endeavour 'd to break her of it ; and that he likewise , having no Taste for Poetry , and not imagining it could ever be any Advantage to her , join 'd in the same Design : But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , he had of late desisted , and left her more at Liberty |
| 44 | Now I said Mr Nichol I 'd to take you to that erm but the only thing is it 's after the so I do n't know how you feel if you 'd if you would rather see a performance before the exam , or you would rather see that one after the exam , or two . |
| 45 | I 'll tell you this , I 've always had to like him on the job . |
| 46 | At Plowden was a road bridge built of transverse timbers with gaps in between ; it was here , on one of our journeys , that we sighted a cow with all four legs fallen through the gaps and its horns waving over the line ; Cadwallader ( the guard ) had had to pull it by the horns with main force while the station master sat on its head and Whitaker slowly drew the coaches past . |
| 47 | It is worth £8 million and the gallery has had to purchase it through three annual instalments negotiated with the previous owners . |
| 48 | Her mother and father had had to help her down the steps and into the car . |
| 49 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 50 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 51 | They 've had to do it during the weekend , a distance of eighty five miles , and it goes across five counties . |
| 52 | Once or twice , when Harry and Fleury had had to leave her to her own devices for a few moments in order to fight off the sepoys , she had become very upset and had made little attempt to conceal the fact . |
| 53 | For Brian to be certain he was the father of any child of Tina 's , for anyone to know he was the father of any child of Tina 's , he would have had to keep her for months on an island inhabited only by the pair of them . |
| 54 | and then you were inveigled to the R and D and then you inveigled to become a Vice Chair , and today you 've been handling the ceremony so well , we 've had to keep you in cotton wool to make sure that er , that you kept your health . |
| 55 | Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability . |
| 56 | Er there 's the general insurance side which is based in Bournemouth and you may have had to contact them on previous occasions for quotations for motor and er house insurance , that sort of thing . |
| 57 | Touch wood , I 've never had to dope him on the lorry . |
| 58 | Another five seconds and you 'd have had to scrape me off the underside of this thing . ’ |
| 59 | Getting on to the remains of the top of the pod had been relatively straightforward , although Daak had tried to insist on being the last one out and she 'd had to threaten him with troopers ' oaths and a blaster to convince him that gallantry was inappropriate . |
| 60 | Sort my love life with Rocky out , we 've had a bit of a tiff at the moment , as a result I 've had to drop him from the squad completely and he 'll probably go and join the scum where he 'll show me up like that poncy french bugger who used to play here . |