Example sentences of "to have [verb] to [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it looks like I 'm going to have to attend to that jockey girl . ’ |
| 2 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 3 | ‘ I would have had to have come to some arrangement with Janice — separate houses , separate lives — and taken on the job of looking after Kirsty myself , even if it had meant giving up my job . ’ |
| 4 | Civilian casualties seem to have amounted to some 400 ( the exact figures are unknown ) , while the soldiers lost 26 dead with some 200 wounded . |
| 5 | I am concerned that your correspondent rang Climbline at 7.15pm only to have to listen to that day 's forecast . |
| 6 | There 's a great deal of theological thinking of a very different kind going on outside Europe in the Third World , in Latin America and Africa , in India — the place where we used to think we sent our understanding of God for the heathen to be converted to it , and we 're beginning to have to listen to those places and to receive what they have to give us , rather than thinking that it 's all settled in our patch of the world . |
| 7 | She felt her skin burn , it was intolerable to have to listen to this . |
| 8 | Although it required official sanction to perform intersexing , Roirbak doubted whether Jahsaxa was careless enough not to have seen to that . |
| 9 | What was she supposed to have done to this unknown bitch ? |
| 10 | Lewes alone seems to have grown to any great importance in the pre-Conquest years . |
| 11 | And , having chosen them , we are going to have to stick to those priorities — and we will . ’ |
| 12 | It made her hate Berndt even more to have to descend to such a feeble-minded stratagem . |
| 13 | The older groups are less likely to have contributed to such a scheme while they were in the labour force , and are therefore less likely to have an occupational pension . |
| 14 | However , the ASW role was not wholly positive : ASWs were significant in diverting women from compulsory admission , and injecting a psychosocial perspective which appears to have contributed to this diversion . |
| 15 | Changing mortality and fertility patterns are likely to have contributed to this fall ( Table 7 ) . |
| 16 | Changing mortality and fertility patterns are likely to have contributed to this fall . |
| 17 | A number of different factors seem to have contributed to this extensive scale of decentralization from the major metropolitan areas , including changes in residential preferences and the search by companies for less cramped factory sites and for cheaper and less organized labour such as married women . |
| 18 | Conditions at Sullom Voe were considered to have contributed to this epidemic as well as to unusual outbreaks of whooping cough , scarlet fever , and influenza ( J D MacGregor , International Epidemiological Association , Edinburgh , 1981 ) . |
| 19 | Equally , changes in the proportion of people married in particular age categories does not appear to have contributed to any significant decline in population increases . |
| 20 | It was a separate company from the BCR , though some of the directors seem to have belonged to both . |
| 21 | One can speculate why , with so much in common , Greeks and Jews do not seem to have spoken to each other . |
| 22 | ( Even in the cause of evasion , Aveling was not known to have spoken to any workers during the course of his tour . ) |
| 23 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 24 | ‘ To have gone to such lengths to destroy — ’ Meredith heard his muttered expletive , but he said no more — just began to pace the room with a restless air as if he were in a prison and desperate to get out . |
| 25 | Just a handful of badly played notes to have led to all of this . |
| 26 | The purist may , however , still balk at the idea of a negative-energy field , even though to date the C- field is not known to have led to any conceptual difficulty either in classical or quantum physics . |
| 27 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 28 | It 's a really terrible thing to have happened to such a sweet couple , ’ Carole murmured warmly , putting a comforting arm about the other girl 's shoulder . |
| 29 | The experiment seems to have worked to some extent in rural schools with farms attached . |
| 30 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |