Example sentences of "to have [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you used to have to wear a uniform ? |
| 2 | But the mother-of-three is now recovering at her home in Dalkey near Dublin and expects to have to wear a lightweight cast for only another five weeks . |
| 3 | It is no hardship to have to carry a pail of water along a flat surface . ’ |
| 4 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 5 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 6 | I am going to have to write a letter of explanation to the Prime Minister . |
| 7 | You have no idea what it is like to have to bear a child . |
| 8 | It 's no use going home on Friday night and going erm , I 've only got five appointments , you 're self-employed , it means you 're going to have to work a couple of hours extra . |
| 9 | If you are in your late teens or are doing a further education course and you are extremely worried about examinations , you are going to have to find a way to tackle academic stress that does not involve eating and drinking too much . |
| 10 | ‘ Obviously an exaggeration , ’ Merrill demurred , thinking with a sudden sinking feeling , He 's going to have to find a replacement soon … |
| 11 | I saw that I was going to have to find a job before I did something rash which landed me in prison . |
| 12 | So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated . |
| 13 | No matter how much you speed up the entry into London at some point in time you are going to have to create a jam . |
| 14 | If he 's been used to lads ' nights out each week , and football practice on Sundays , you 're going to have to reach a compromise . |
| 15 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 16 | Squeezing the string works onto three generously filled discs makes good economic sense , though it is annoying to have to experience a break between the first and second movements of the Op. 67 Quartet . |
| 17 | We used to have to use a generator for our electricity and that used to go off at ten o'clock at night so if there was an operation that needed doing , there were two car batteries that were turned on and you used to have to do it by those . |
| 18 | Most of that will go on delivering the programmes er and most of that is existing funding and so we 're going to have to use a lot of it on that , but we want to do new things as well . |
| 19 | Exercise 2 : Pretend that you are a witness who is going to have to give a description to the police . |
| 20 | Ignoring accrued interest , the price that a bond has to have to give a yield to maturity of 9 per cent is given by . |
| 21 | He began , " It is bad enough to have to give a talk at 9.00 am , anyway , without having to watch yourself doing it . " |
| 22 | Expansion south towards the nearby colony of Maryland went on fast enough for a pair of surveyors , Mason and Dixon , to have to draw a boundary between the two in 1702 , though this line was not completely accepted for some decades . |
| 23 | And also , it 's cos that , you know after we had that row about Terry , after Bank Holiday expecting not to have to do a day in the shop , and er he 's already owing Brian a day ? |
| 24 | If you leave a complicated estate with lots of bits here there and everywhere and your affairs in mess and the solicitor 's got to sort out he 's going to have to do a lot of work for it . |
| 25 | If he is going to have to abandon a dream for the sake of your joint happiness , it 's something you need to talk about . |
| 26 | She was not going to have to invent an excuse to ring Veronica after all . |
| 27 | After all , even if she could hardly bear to face another row , she was going to have to put a stop to all this nonsense , and as soon as possible . |
| 28 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 29 | Extreme discomfort in the legs , and sometimes the arms , leads sufferers to constantly move their legs around in bed , resulting in insomnia for themselves and anyone unfortunate enough to have to share a bed with them . |
| 30 | Where I was going to have to keep a secret about an incredibly priceless mystery belonging to a God-King . |