Example sentences of "have [to-vb] on [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 2 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 3 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 4 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
| 5 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 6 | But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married |
| 7 | ‘ I have nearly been killed through having to walk on to the road to see whether it is clear , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ Besides , the fans did n't have to run on to the pitch . |
| 9 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 10 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 11 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 12 | I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30 , after which we shall have to move on to the debate . |
| 13 | But there it was , The Cottage , its porch right over the pavement to the gutter , red reflectors for night traffic on its corners , pedestrians having to detour on to the road before regaining the pavement again . |
| 14 | Er I 'd be fourteen in the June and we used to have to keep on till the end of the term which was August . |
| 15 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 16 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 17 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 18 | This was not the moment to tell Ingrid to strain less in her upper registers , or to remind Luiza to allow plenty of time when she had to walk on in the ball scene . |
| 19 | It came away from the wall and he had to grab on to a crate to stop himself overbalancing . |
| 20 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 21 | Chris had to hold on to the grab handle of the jeep or she would have been flung out . |
| 22 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 23 | Power stations , oil refineries , dairy farms , newspapers , hospitals , simply have to go on at the weekend , and often through nights as well as days . |
| 24 | If you have to venture on to the roof , be sure to hire a roof ladder which hooks over the roof ridge ; and for other work above ground level , make sure your ladder is anchored so it ca n't move . |
| 25 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 26 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 27 | These people , I remarked , could pull out of their pockets , thoughtlessly , as much money for a round of drinks as most single parents have to live on for a week ; could pay as much for a few hours ’ sleep as a Third World peasant and his family have to live , or die , on for a year . |
| 28 | As Tim said you have to hold on to the fact that these are real characters and their in a kind of confrontational situation here are n't they ? |
| 29 | Well you have to hang on to the buggy then . |
| 30 | Ideology apart , managers have to get on with the job of managing , maintaining society as a going concern , and upholding organisational goals with the cooperation of other members . |