Example sentences of "have [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU HAVE to spare a thought , too , for the University of Sussex . |
| 2 | ‘ We have to attend a reception at the Ambassador 's . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ That 's probably why I have to see a therapist , ’ said Scarlet humbly . |
| 4 | ‘ I have to see a man about something . |
| 5 | I only have to see a bottle of Orvieto and those desperate dawns rise up before me . |
| 6 | ‘ I have to see a mayor . ’ |
| 7 | Gross output per man or woman employed in production is considerable , because the value of goods passing through the various processes have to carry a return and recovery on the capital employed to make those processes possible in the first place . |
| 8 | In the old days , they would have a real wren with them , alive or dead , but now I suppose you have to pretend a wren is there . |
| 9 | You have to lose a race now and again . |
| 10 | If you have to cancel a booking , please let us know as soon as possible . |
| 11 | you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in |
| 12 | You have to wait a minute ! |
| 13 | I have to wait a while before I get a second chub , but it is worth it for this one weighs 4lb 10oz and fights like a demon . |
| 14 | As my hon. Friend rightly pointed out , no patient in his area waits for more than two years and there has been a dramatic fall in the number of those who have to wait a year . |
| 15 | She added : ‘ Even if you have to wait a year , it 's a long time if you 're worried about it . ’ |
| 16 | French ministers must give up their seats to substitutes , who then have to wait a month before they may vote . |
| 17 | But for any good ideas to work , we have to restore a sense of decency , of caring and an understanding of shared concern for the fabric of our community . |
| 18 | But children do not possess a social analysis of what is happening to them , or around them , so the landscape and the pictures it presents have to remain a background , taking on meaning later , from different circumstances . |
| 19 | As always women must wear a skirt on or below the knee to get into the enclosure and men have to wear a tie — regatta traditions which are rigidly adhered to . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm never scared , we do n't get hurt because we have to wear a head guard . |
| 21 | I definitely have to wear a top cos never worn no tights on . |
| 22 | At school , the lads used to say , ‘ Ha , you 're going for your dancing lesson , hee-hee … you have to wear a ballet frock . ’ |
| 23 | I hope I never go deaf and have to wear a hearing-aid ; it will sound like the Atlantic rollers crashing up over the rocks at Land 's End . |
| 24 | That 's right when you get married you have to wear a hat . |
| 25 | ‘ They should change the law to include them with dogs like pit bulls which have to wear a muzzle . |
| 26 | If you are the guard you have to wear a blindfold because you are armed with a laser torch which is so powerful that it would blind you if you could see it . |
| 27 | If for some reason you have to miss a day 's exercises , be sure to return to the missed day before continuing with the programme . |
| 28 | It is always a great disappointment when , either as a referee or player , you have to miss a game through injury or illness . |
| 29 | Include it in that , those twelve weeks because I know it 's , you know , a bit erm I would try and see if I could set up some sex education with the health centre and the , you know , that she used to take them and they went through contraception and condoms and whatever at the , and she used to take them down for an afternoon it might well be that they have to miss a lesson |
| 30 | Such bills have to meet a number of criteria , apart from the credit rating of the bank which accepts the bill . |