Example sentences of "[pron] have [to-vb] [being] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to practise being on my own . ’ |
| 2 | She did n't have to like it , any more than she had to like being Vanessa Vail , but there was no way she could evade the responsibility without racking up a seed of guilt that would sprout and eat at her Dreams . |
| 3 | You have to avoid being Nellie-know-all and hold your tongue to allow a younger generation to enjoy the fun of discovery . |
| 4 | ‘ We have to start being meaner at the back . |
| 5 | ‘ The whole document must look suitably smart in all respects — the sort of paper on which it 's printed , the use of colour and so on — but at the same time it has to avoid being gratuitously slick , ’ Boon warns . |
| 6 | He could n't manage it and he said that he felt that he had to stop being an MP er for several reasons , one of them was that he thought most MPs like he agreed he was at certain times , were out of touch . |
| 7 | I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ . |