Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your appliance is dangerous , the engineer has to disconnect it by law . |
| 2 | Once again he has to thank him for a new book , this time Nineteen Eighty-Four ( 1949 ) ; but now he sounds cool . |
| 3 | ‘ What I want to know is what 's so interesting on the other side of that wall that Madonna has to see it before putting her knickers on ? ’ |
| 4 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 5 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 6 | He has to wear it at his mother 's wedding . ’ |
| 7 | However , because of their wide scope , when judging such clauses under s 3 of the UCTA , one has to treat them on the basis that they exclude or restrict liability for total failure to perform by reason of wilful default . |
| 8 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
| 9 | Though Coronation Street , a downmarket soap , has lots of viewers , Granada , the firm that makes it , has to sell it to other ITV companies for a mere £100,000 per episode . |
| 10 | But there are some truths too cruel , before the faces one has to announce them to , to be told . |
| 11 | If one has to express it in percentage terms , somewhere between 10% and 49% . |
| 12 | The awful truth of Penny 's childhood and young womanhood is that the abuse never ended — and someone with the right counselling skills has to help her to unburden herself . |
| 13 | She feels she is on the verge of some interesting illumination here , but has to abandon it in order to search for Brian , to ask him to fasten the back of her dress : if she does not leave soon , she will be late for her early arrival , and moreover she has promised to meet Esther Breuer at eight thirty precisely on the corner of Harley Street and Weymouth Street . |
| 14 | My husband has to do it for me . |
| 15 | His ideas are all he has to do it with . |
| 16 | Dr Michael Dingle 's surgery is on the third floor , reached by an impossibly small lift ( Kenneth has to do it in two trips ) . |
| 17 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 18 | Daddy has to leave it at the garage . |
| 19 | He has to bow them to his opinions , that 's the way we live . ’ |
| 20 | In order to get rid of the whole web of interlinked concepts , myths , wishes and desires , one has to mine it from within . |
| 21 | So are the reports that have flourished on the LA gossip circuit — Kilmer is going overboard ; Kilmer thinks he is Jim Morrison ; Kilmer has it written into his contract that everybody has to address him as Jim . |
| 22 | It is generally assumed that in the absence of methodological artifacts visual laterality effects in normals arise either because one cerebral hemisphere is relatively inefficient at processing or retrieving the stimulus material presented and/or because one hemisphere can not fully process the information and has to send it across the corpus callosum to the opposite hemisphere . |
| 23 | Hosea has to recall them to Yahweh , their first love , when they have gone and committed adultery , like Hosea 's own wife , with some other ‘ Lord ’ on whom they have lavished their worship and devotion . |
| 24 | In some cases the territory is so good it does n't matter that a female has to share it with other females . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ One has to keep it under review to see what the need might be . ’ |
| 26 | He uses his long bill to probe for worms , grubs and other insects , and as his nostrils are at the tip he has to clear it by forcing out air . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm not saying I condone it , ’ he interpreted her look , ‘ but at the moment maybe it 's all she has to protect her from feelings of inadequacy . ’ |
| 28 | He has to oxygenate them inside him and everything else . |
| 29 | It becomes important to him : you started this game , you laid down the rules , so he has to beat you at it . |
| 30 | So capitalism has to export it over its boundary and that 's one of the company , what you could call it period , for example , erm |