Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've had to give out to the poor people in this town great quantities of bread and cheese today , and they 're still complaining . |
| 3 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 4 | The political reporters on all stations have paid tribute to the outstanding contribution made by my right hon. Friend , and the way in which he trumped the sporting aphorisms of the Prime Minister , used in the orchestrated triumph that we have had to live through in the past few weeks from a Government rocked on their heels by the assault from the Opposition today . |
| 5 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 6 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |