Example sentences of "[adj] man have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A shame the old man had to ruin it all |
| 2 | As for Matthew , the old man had to admit that , despite his anger at the boy for having deserted him , he still felt a murmuring of affection towards him . |
| 3 | Under the terms of the pardon , the commander was not empowered to accept Macdonald 's submission and the old man had to make his way through the blizzard to Inveraray . |
| 4 | The blindfolded man has to preempt an attack as soon as he feels it coming by blocking and striking lightly in the direction that he senses it is coming from . |
| 5 | All the little man had to do was stand up and take one pace forward , parting the branches . |
| 6 | ‘ Every great man has to have disciples . ’ |
| 7 | Next he had to calculate how many rounds each man had to plough . |
| 8 | That is the kind of occasion on which the advance man has to think fast , make a decision and ‘ manage ’ it through . |
| 9 | But er this is how they they wanted the work done and it was n't a question of one man had to learn the lot you just had to do work away where you were sent to work . |
| 10 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
| 11 | But another important reason for the head horseman 's care was that he was directly responsible to the farmer for the way the field was cultivated ; and if the farmer brought forward a complaint , the head man had to bear the full burden of it . |