Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The player has to smash up opponents .
2 ‘ Also with Kerrang spelling all c's as k's and all s's as z's , ’ Dave continued , ‘ the editor has to sort out problems with the typesetters who are always trying to correct our copy .
3 He either has to give up music , or organize live-in help of some kind .
4 No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home .
5 Owen : When George , or you Robert … or you Carol walks out and slams the door that means the teacher has to give up time they could be giving to the others in the class , the ones who need the help .
6 The Guardian 's cartoonist showed one health official saying to another : ‘ These regional days of action are so badly organized that Len Murray has to ring up Norman Fowler to ask where they are being held . ’
7 In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock suggested that in that case someone down the chain of distribution who suffers economic loss ( i.e. because he has to pay out damages for breach of contract ) , might well be able to claim indemnity direct from the negligent manufacturer under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson .
8 The underwriter has to take up shares if called upon to do so , and for this has to be able to obtain the necessary funds .
9 So it is likely that a family in which a mother or father has to bring up children single-handed will think of itself and be treated by others , as a little cluster of deviants from the marital norm .
10 In Home Alone , a child played by Macaulay Culkin is left at home on his own and has to fend off burglars .
11 HOW sickening that President Bush has to fend off allegations of a long-ago affair as he gears up for the US election .
12 Some lenders have already had their fingers burnt and have had to write off loans and lose their investments , rather than take on responsibility for contaminated land which was part of their security .
13 Not that that was the end of it — NCR had simply had to open up opportunities for people lower down the ladder to develop , backed up by formal systems of career planning , appraisal and psychometric testing to mine the required resource .
14 He 's not only had to pick up technique in racing , he 's had to learn how to train — that 's been the secret , he says .
15 Only five people specifically mentioned the adverse effect on their work : one daughter said she had had to give up work , and two sons and two daughters-in-law complained of being called away from their work to deal with a problem affecting their mother .
16 She has had to give up work , which has put a financial strain on the family .
17 Well that 's the thing I have I had to give up years ago .
18 My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land —
19 Winning trainer Tim Forster said : ‘ I am very pleased with Cherrykino , this is the first time he has really had to race over fences .
20 Pregnant or not , she had had to read out passages from the scripts which recorded Paul 's thoughts , to see how they sounded ; and he would make her rewrite the illegible parts in her neat hand at some length .
21 Since then , over the past 17 years , I have had to fight off challenges of various kinds from representatives of the Kent miners , the Socialist Workers party , the Communist party , the Green party , an exotic assortment of independents and the National Front .
22 Many say they have had to turn down surgery , for instance , because they could not find alternative care for their dependants when a bed became available .
23 The hire car would be running up a heavy bill , but apart from the advance that he 'd had to hand over Forester had no intention of paying it .
24 The tax on all registrations was eventually repealed in the October of 1794 , but in the meantime Charles the Cheesemonger had had to hand over ninepence of his hard-earned money to have his little brood 's details entered in the Anglican parish register , having already spent sixpence in the same way for Mary and Sarah in the October of 1784 .
25 From April 1993 local authorities will have to contract out waste management , and this should give the companies more opportunities to secure contracts for the conversion of waste into energy .
26 Every department is having to carry out market tests and exercises to compare costs of the internal service to that in the private sector , ’ he said .
27 Taylor is also likely to give David Hirst immediate consolation for having to sit out Sheffield Wednesday 's UEFA Cup game last night .
28 I 'll have to go up top , oh or pre maybe your dad would nip up to shop or something .
29 You 'd have to go back years to find a sequence of gigs as poorly attended as we 've seen recently : Frank Sinatra , Chesney Hawkes , Morrissey , Chris Rea , Lloyd Cole and Alice Cooper all played to empty rows in Dublin .
30 people do n't have to go out Sunday normally
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