Example sentences of "you have [to-vb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It still leaves the business of you having to come home from Dublin on the bus every night , ’ Eve said .
2 What do you have to do actually to , to prepare a forecast ?
3 But do you have to go there at once ? ’
4 You had to go ashore for that .
5 You were on piece work you got paid by the rivet sort of thing , so you had to go ahead with it .
6 What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know .
7 It 's been difficult in = thing that you had to go home at night and keep watering like , your not doing anything else but watering , watering
8 If you were caught , you had to wait there until the end .
9 No , you said you were there for half past five , because you had to get there before half past five in order to book it .
10 Well I was told you had to get there before half past five .
11 If you had to stay away on your two days you 're out with the trainer then we will pay you thirty pound a night subsistence .
12 ‘ Ah — your wife had to go out , so you had to stay home with the children ? ’
13 If you wanted to cut from a wide shot to a close-up , you had to cut away to another camera long enough for the lens to be swung round into position and refocussed .
14 In order to do this , however , you have to listen intelligently to the lecturer and think about what he is saying .
15 Literally , and then you have to sit there with this cream on , and it 's all very fiddly and messy and it smells .
16 In reception they put you in a little cubicle like a wardrobe and you have to sit there for hours .
17 If you have to rely solely on public transport then the rural life may not be such a good idea , unless everything that you have to be near is within your area .
18 You have to do right by people . ’
19 he 's alright he you can stroke him but you have to go slow towards him .
20 If you have to go away from the office on official business ES will pay for the cost of travel .
21 The great problem we face is that obviously the authorities in South Africa do n't want the picture to be made , and we 're shooting it in Zimbabwe , where we 've been made very welcome , and erm the difficulties is the creation of South Africa in Zimbabwe , which means you have to go all over the place .
22 They 're shutting the skips down and then anything that you take then you have to take straight to the tip .
23 It is easy enough to set up an objective which really consists of two contradictory objectives : that is to say that to reach one you have to move away from the other ( for example , lowering prices on premium goods , designing a family sports car , designing tyres that do not wear out ) .
24 You have to push hard against the wall to drive the barge forward . ’
25 Thomson Lewis he 's so direct this lad you have to check though as Gemmell action stride for stride .
26 As one top London restaurant chef said , ‘ you have to stick rigidly to the basics of hygiene and constantly motivate your staff to the highest standard .
27 ‘ Sometimes in life you have to stick together through thick and thin .
28 you have to dig deep in your pocket …
29 There 's a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment . ’
30 That was only if on that Thur on that Mon Thursday and Friday if you have to stay away on the Wednesday night and the Thursday night then we cover that .
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