Example sentences of "have had [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 2 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 3 | She has had to give in over the question of chrome : and the Foreign Minister , who never struck me as being too friendly towards us , failed to get away ( as he apparently hoped ) with letting armed German ships through the Straits . |
| 4 | IN a week when Mark McNulty has had to pull out of the Jersey European Airways Open with a bad back , Sam Torrance , the holder , has come to La Moye with his hands covered in blisters . |
| 5 | I had n't got the change to ring you from the tube , and I 'd had to rush out of the house to get there because I woke up late . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ So he wandered the countryside for a long time , starving and having to beg for food , and sleeping in barns and under trees , and eventually he found a little town where all the beggars and old people he 'd had thrown out of the city had gone ; they were very poor , of course , but by all helping each other they had more than the merchant had . |
| 7 | She got home to Kington Square at last , still grubby , very hungry , quite dispirited and having had to hand over to the police the document which had cost her an unreasonable amount of suffering . |
| 8 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 9 | If we fell off the rope we would have had to go back to the start . |
| 10 | This one , he said , pointing to Bobby , he had had to pick up in the street . |
| 11 | Someone had had to drop out at the last minute and there was an unexpected vacancy to be filled . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've had to give out to the poor people in this town great quantities of bread and cheese today , and they 're still complaining . |
| 13 | Well often I might see somebody waving out by the gate frantically trying to get in where he 's put one of his different size padlocks round the gate , the back gate and the front gate , and often if we need to feed the cat he 's padlocked all the different padlocks round the kitchen cupboards erm we 've been unable to get the cat food out , so we 've had to go off in the car and bring him back from a friend because he 's the only one who knows which key goes with which padlock to undo all the cupboards . |
| 14 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 15 | The political reporters on all stations have paid tribute to the outstanding contribution made by my right hon. Friend , and the way in which he trumped the sporting aphorisms of the Prime Minister , used in the orchestrated triumph that we have had to live through in the past few weeks from a Government rocked on their heels by the assault from the Opposition today . |
| 16 | In fact , Orrell players have had to drop out of the County Championship to back their own club . |