Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] to have " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , callers to his home in the Hampshire village of Whiteparish were greeted with a sarcastic telephone message , which said : ‘ I am sorry Robin can not come to the phone — he has gone to have his foot amputated . ’
2 It has been suggested that he has claimed to have absorbed the banned substance through eating meat but one observer claimed cryptically yesterday : ‘ He would have to eat three cows a day for that to be the case . ’
3 But , he rejects accusations of misogynism completely , denying the word as valid in black culture and pointing out that black women he has spoken to have no qualms about the film .
4 Yes er and of course i if er rather like it seems as happened last week , if he seems to have got a bit of time he seems to need to have to extend it
5 Brian Deane has scored his first goal at Elland Road ( thank god ) and hopefully it will be the first of many — he does tend to have a hand in the build up to many of our goals but really he was bought to SCORE the bloody things .
6 He does appear to have looked carefully at various places , and in 1800 he settled in Ambleside .
7 But he does appear to have a low opinion , deep suspicions if you like , of a person or persons in the Pentagon . ’
8 But this time he does seem to have hit rock bottom .
9 The assumption that Gloucester would be a more satisfactory component of royal authority in Wales proved justified , and on the rare occasions for which evidence survives he does seem to have co-operated with the council .
10 Agnes read them through , then said more calmly : ‘ Well , he does seem to have got the top people …
11 The assumption that Gloucester would be a more satisfactory component of royal authority in Wales proved justified , and on the rare occasions for which evidence survives he does seem to have co-operated with the council .
12 erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy .
13 I think that er Mr Gorbachev has er seen that Mr Bush has only a few firmly held points of view , I mean that 's one of the criticisms of George Bush that he does seem to have only a few firmly held points of view on emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe , but having said that , er I think he really does believe that a unified Germany in NATO is a key part of stability in that region , and I think that Mr Gorbachev recognises that on this one Mr Bush is not er capable of being moved .
14 Because I mean I 've , I mean I know we 're moving on the dining room but you do n't know what I 've had because he 's wanted to do this , he 's wanted to have the paper
15 You went to see Alan and he 's decided to have the weekend off he said .
16 Well I think I do n't think it 's all that It 's not a recent bungalow by the sounds of it cos he 's had to have new plumbing
17 He 's had to have his spleen out , his spleen has burst inside him .
18 Apparently he 's had to have plastic surgery on his arm
19 I forget the country , I could n't remember Eileen was laughing , so she says I do n't know how Kevin would be , I do n't know whether it 's today , he 's gone she said , he 's had to have one up his bum
20 Well he supposed to give up smoking , it had caused clotting in one of his legs and then it just whipped over to the other one , he 's had to have it cut off
21 But when Sam got married he 's had to have a sixpence in .
22 He 's allowed to have one .
23 I think it 's between two and four pints of lager he 's allowed to have a night as long as he does n't touch spirits .
24 ‘ Of course , he 's got to have his tea now , they 've just opened ! ’
25 He 's got to have that insane desire to be the best .
26 He 's got to have a trade .
27 He 's got to have a bank .
28 He 's got to have a woman , has Kemp .
29 He 's no option he 's got to have something like this .
30 So he 's got to have , you know , doctor 's evidence .
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