Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [prep] [art] place [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He had been dreading having to look for a place for lunch .
2 But Dixon , who spent nine years at Stamford Bridge , may have to settle for a place on the subs ' bench as he continues his return from a back injury .
3 Yet Thomas , 17 , who made a scoring debut as a substitute last week , could have to settle for a place on the bench again as Hearts look to John Robert- son and Ian Ferguson to shoulder the responsibility in attack .
4 If a coherent theory of literacy is to be developed , it will have to account for the place of written language , both in relation to the forms of spoken language and also in relation to the communicative functions served by different types of language in different social settings .
5 ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list .
6 When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world .
7 ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton .
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