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

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1 Unless you 're like my Uncle Joe — a fox got his best foot , 'e 'ad to have a wooden leg , 'e was livid . ’
2 Also I do n't want him to try to have it off with someone else .
3 Everything around him seemed to have grown bigger ( just like Alice in Wonderland , in n it ? ) .
4 His long bushy eyebrows , mingling with his coarse black hairline , made him appear to have no forehead at all .
5 Considering how closely the band had worked with Charman over the past three years , their method of dismissing him seems to have been unduly formal in the circumstances .
6 The money 's mostly there , but the spirit in him seems to have been leaking away .
7 Why did this man he had just begun to believe had no interest in him have to have chosen that book among the dozens of others ?
8 He made to have another look at the distant diner .
9 I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ?
10 We reached the low white picket-fence , the only insulation from his subjects that he cared to have .
11 On the other hand , he had the last word whenever he cared to have it , not just on foreign or defence policy but on any aspect of policy .
12 He expected to have to face an immediate follow-up attack , but nothing of the sort happened .
13 He admitted to have been a virgin at twenty-two .
14 Returning to Germany in 1520 with the papal bull Exsurge Domine , he sought to have the Emperor Charles V outlaw Luther and all his works .
15 defendant in belief that it was necessary to enter an appearance before a payment into court could be made was not estopped when he sought to have the case dismissed for want of prosecution on discovering that the writ had not9 been served .
16 I watched Hanley on TV against St Helens and Halifax and he looks to have lost the pace and mobility to close down players going away from him .
17 But now he looks to have got the bit between his teeth and is buckling down to some series driving — and finally showing what enormous talent he has .
18 He looks to have superb ability and will increase Portadown 's options up front . ’
19 At the end of 1978 , when he realized the danger that Khomeini was inflicting on the Shah from France , Marenches say he tried to have him expelled from the country .
20 The all-rounder , who hurt his shoulder during Pakistan 's World Cup campaign , said he will not tour England if he has to have an operation .
21 He finds that he has to have his full concentration on his walk in order to match Iain 's stumbling , neurotic empathy .
22 I agree with you on his ambiguity and the danger of flirting with such issues — you 're not telling him what to write but , being an idol to many fans , he has to have sense of responsibility .
23 In order for a fighter to fight in the state of New Jersey , he has to have a thorough medical examination , so it 's hard for me to say . ’
24 This learning difficulty has to be ‘ significantly greater … than for the majority of children of his age ’ ; or , he has to have a ‘ disability which either prevents or hinders him from making use of educational facilities of a kind generally provided in schools maintained by the local education authority concerned … ’ .
25 He has to have his £5 on Friday , and he would n't take any less than £2 a session , we both smoke , so that would be a total of about £6 a day at least , and then I 'd spend £1 on our tea alone .
26 We need it all but he has to have his bit ’ ( Graham , 1985 , p. 89 ) .
27 To do that , of course , he has to have some bankable names to star in it .
28 Mummy calls them his worshippers — he has to have at least one of them around . ’
29 He has to have a fire even in summer !
30 He 's only aged eleven , he 's only got four years before he has to have something assessed anyway .
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