Example sentences of "[coord] we have [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The net result of having so many favoured people around was that tickets for the Kirov and Bolshoi ballets were obviously rationed , and we had to be content with second league fixtures of circus and puppet shows to fill any gaps in the programme . |
| 2 | ‘ Tremors of this magnitude , although rare , have been recorded in the region and we had to be comfortable that the plant could withstand the worst-case scenario . |
| 3 | It had to be passionate — and we had to be naked . |
| 4 | Apparently there was an exam in the hall next door to the music room and we had to be quiet . |
| 5 | The following three hours passed with surprising speed , but I had already learnt a valuable lesson : it is very tiring and hard being in general surgery ; every patient expects that the doctor knows all about them the moment they walk in the door , and we had to be empathetic , not sympathetic . |
| 6 | Major alterations in the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries covered up the marble and we have to be grateful to renovations in 1904 for the fact that it is now visible again . |
| 7 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 8 | While equally the white lesbian sister has got to understand that while she 's unified with this Asian lesbian sister there are differences , there are differences some of which are good and some of which are bad , and we have to be frank about them and to struggle around them because we ca n't just pretend that they do n't exist , then we 're not going to reach anywhere . |
| 9 | ‘ And we have to be careful who we speak to . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Lithuania are a side who can cause us problems and we have to be careful . |
| 11 | It is an embryonic concept in a fast-changing environment and we have to be realistic about the limits of our power to forecast or even speculate about its future . |
| 12 | ‘ We have shorter runs and more colour changes these days , and we have to be flexible enough to meet these requirements . ’ |
| 13 | But that 's the real world and we have to be positive and make it the best for them as it can be , with love , affection and trust . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We could n't take the risk of blowing so much money on someone we are unsure of , ’ said Toulon 's manager Roland Courbiss , ‘ I wanted Charlie in the team but we had to be sure because of his reputation . ’ |
| 15 | But we had to be mature enough to undertake this independence . |
| 16 | It 's a terrible thing to have happened , but we have to be strong — if only for the sake of Emma and Sophie . ’ |
| 17 | But we have to be careful to try to understand what steps are proper in order to keep it at bay . |
| 18 | ‘ We can be like a flea on their backs , but we have to be ready when they turn over . |
| 19 | We are all agreed as to what ought to happen , but we have to be realistic and question how it can be made to happen . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's true that I 've given my personal backing to Kevin Keegan in our search for players , but we have to be realistic . |
| 21 | But we have to be aware that other contexts of interpretation , other ways of reading , are also constructed by the institution of literature . |