Example sentences of "[verb] have [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Around one hundred galleries are expected to have signed up by the closing date and attendance figures are expected to be around the usual 100,000 . |
| 7 | But a car bomb is reported to have gone off in the Palestinian quarter of the city and a police station has been blown up ( the interior ministry says by an accidental explosion ) . |
| 8 | Almost 88 per cent of the 2,683 varieties which our grandparents enjoyed have vanished along with the Lincoln , the Washington and the Jefferson apples . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | With his low-crowned hat and antiquated clerical costume , his broad scholarship and unenthusiastic divinity , his uncompromising insistence on ancient rights ( especially in chapter ) , his belief that land and ‘ the funds ’ were the only proper investment for the college and industrial shares a new form of the South Sea Bubble , he seemed to have stepped out of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | ‘ You could have had a hundred casual affairs , and I 'd have adjusted to them somehow and tried to make you fall in love with me , but the thought that you 'd loved someone else and still loved him , because it seemed to have gone on over the years , periodically resumed … |
| 13 | Later , Emerson was to continue racing in other forms , in the US Cart championship and elsewhere : the bug was still in him , success came occasionally , but the spirit seemed to have gone out of the man . |
| 14 | Fortunately , Luke 's anger seemed to have evaporated along with the steam that surrounded them . |
| 15 | People who seemed to have wandered in off the street . |
| 16 | It was a torture which was part of the school 's underground mythology , but something he assumed had died out at the same time as the belief that bullying was inevitable , harmless and good for the victim 's character . |
| 17 | I recall having to stand out in the cold at Cotherstone Chapel when one gentleman belonging to a family which had been in the dale for several generations was laid to rest . |
| 18 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 19 | Peace was alleged to have broken out in the civil war or scrum called the Labour Party , creationism was adjudged not acceptable in Little Rock , Arkansas , schools , the Advanced Passenger Train ran with no passengers aboard to prove how advanced it was in every way except actually working , and the Soviet mission to the UN sued New York for better protection . |
| 20 | MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest . |
| 21 | I was going to have to ease up on the Slammers . |
| 22 | I was going to have to ease up on the grass as well . |
| 23 | It 's been a very big step to use pressure flow studies at all , and now that we 're used to using pressure flow studies , we 're going to have to go back to the drawing board and perhaps learn to use a different kind of technology that 's ambulatory , that allows us |
| 24 | But it started to make me feel scared that it was something I was going to have to bring up for the rest of my life . |
| 25 | ‘ They 're going to have to come out of the forests … ’ he replied , with a grin like a Cheshire cat . |
| 26 | We 're chasing up two other people who were at that party , and who both seem to have gone out for the day . |
| 27 | The main topic of conversation was not which England players are playing their last Test , but which is the most useless advertisement around the ground , now that Durox Supablocs of blessed memory seem to have faded back into the mists of uncertainty from whence they came . |
| 28 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 29 | So far , the tabloids only seem to have picked up on the claim that couples using brain machines together have better sex . |
| 30 | They seem to have signed up to the work directive from which the measure comes . |