Example sentences of "[vb base] we have [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 We mistake it for reality because we are so involved , so lost in the illusion , so absorbed by the drama , that we forget we have chosen to be here , that we are willing participants in an elaborate stage production .
2 We hope we have contributed to the debate surrounding human aggression in a constructive and novel way ; and that we have raised some questions surrounding a number of basic notions that have remained unexamined by both the scientific and lay communities .
3 A further consequence of having time zones is that , when we travel we have to adjust to local time in the new time zone .
4 You ca you 're gon na , you 're gon na cover it , I mean we 've got to re
5 you know , I have got to get , I mean we 've got to be ready at four ai n't we , which means we 'll have to be ready before we get there ,
6 I mean we had given to us our friends , mad on radios
7 To see what it was once like we have to turn to the chalk downlands , notably the Ridgeway that follows the crest of the Berkshire Downs or the Icknield Way near Royston in Hertfordshire .
8 Outside , it 's still raining , and as we gallantly struggle to open our umbrella in the wind , we suddenly find we 've come to a halt beside a large black car , and a man in a smart suit is opening the door for us to get in .
9 Fight back those tears at The Inevitable Parting : ‘ You and me , boy , I reckon we 've come to the end of our road . ’
10 Cos I think we 've written to them about three or four times .
11 We gave [ the library manager ] an enormous list of requirements and he has met most of them … and I think we 've got to be reasonably satisfied because the rest of the school have got to have their whack as well .
12 The position yeah , it 's as Roger said , and I think we 've got to the stage now where we 've shown good faith , we 've had that land put in good order , and we can now I think quite justifi justifiably say , we 've done enough , if you 're not prepared to help any more , it 's over to you .
13 I think we 've got to be serious about it in terms of targeting given individuals , tracking back their history , go back through the bloody files , if there 's been anybody been treated .
14 So I think we 've got to be very careful erm , and I want to know which way to go with this .
15 Oh , well I think we 've got to the point have n't we , where these are probably cheaper than the bolts .
16 Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin .
17 I think er well I think we 've managed to er to complete our business er very nicely , I hope you 're very satisfied
18 I believe in a competitive world , but at the same time I think we have got to be laying sound foundations for future growth and if we are constantly pressured into satisfying stock-market expectations , which are short-term , or under threat of take-over , we will not be investing enough for the long-term development of our businesses .
19 But do we have to go to distant worlds to find other kinds of replicator and other , consequent , kinds of evolution ?
20 ‘ Why do we have to go to Glastonbury ? ’
21 Or do we have to look to more concrete and historically specific forms of mediation to explain the racialization of envy and desire ?
22 What evidence do we have relating to French music of the late 17th and early 18th centuries in respect of ( 1 ) the persistence of the mensural system , notably concerning tempo relationships , ( 2 ) the tempo connotations of ‘ expressive ’ verbal directions , the so-called ‘ time-words ’ and ( 3 ) actual timings and metronome markings ?
23 Whereas when we write we have to conform to fairly strict rules of grammar , when we speak we have more choice in the way we employ language .
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