Example sentences of "[art] man have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman had no rights in the matter , for by Jesus 's time all the man had to do was to write out the words ‘ I divorce you ’ and the divorce was effected . |
| 2 | These planks he marked A , B , C , etc. , and all the man had to do was to sight along them in the proper order and he could not help getting the line right . |
| 3 | I mean I 've known wives er having bicycles ready in the , in the corridors of the house , where all the man had to do was to get his trousers on , if he was asleep in bed , she would come and open the front door , put him on his bike and away he went . |
| 4 | This word ‘ gently ’ enhances the tenderness of the lines , while ‘ fields unsown ’ tells us that the man had to go and work in the fields , suggesting a strength and a vigour which he must have had and thereby making his death harder to accept . |
| 5 | The man had to have great financial resources and staying power to follow the Girl if she went on tour . |
| 6 | ‘ Interesting place you 've got here , Mr Blufton , ’ commented the sergeant politely , awestruck by the amount of dosh the man had to afford such a place . |
| 7 | The descent took only a few minutes , but then the man had to make a laborious return journey with the empty sledge , which might take half an hour . |
| 8 | The man has to give up some of his power ; the woman must gain some . |
| 9 | Stay with the man , watching him , waiting hour after hour , until eventually the man has to give in and say something to draw the whole thing to a close . |
| 10 | You can you go to church every Sunday , sing the choruses or the hymns , listen to what the man has to say or the lady has to say at the front , and it can just go over your head and it can mean nothing to you apart from something that you believe might be true . |
| 11 | She had no idea how to proceed during the ceremony and was relieved that a man had to go first . |
| 12 | Generous to a fault , and if he was n't always strictly above-board-well , a man had to live . |
| 13 | The duties being erm what a man had to do to cover that er period of that scheduling . |
| 14 | A man had to keep his money close . |
| 15 | A MAN had to run through a gauntlet of flames to save his life when his first floor flat turned into an inferno . |
| 16 | And if a yarn was spun , or a general true story that a man had to have his train fare to get to Newark and he had to pay this and that , you could er get a loan on your wages . |
| 17 | I could n't hold the car on the clutch and I rolled back down the hill , getting very embarrassed , especially when a man had to help me push the car up the hill again ! |
| 18 | I 'd do a lot for Sue , but a man has to draw the line somewhere . " |
| 19 | ‘ Ah , well , a man has to have some fun . ’ |
| 20 | What have we come to in this country when a man has to prove his innocence against some fluid , movable charge ? " |
| 21 | A man has to get — ‘ |
| 22 | ‘ Nothing is free , sir , and a man has to work to earn his money . ’ |