Example sentences of "that we have [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It was on a trip to Frankfurt with a mixed load of several 2,000lb bombs and the varied load of experimental PFF flares and early target indicator devices ; Bennett always insisted that we had to carry a full load of the hurtful .
2 We entered the very horse show that we had to sit out the year before .
3 When Sir Henry joined us , Holmes told him that we had to leave for London immediately after breakfast .
4 ‘ People always do , you know , ’ she told us , as if that were incontrovertible proof that we had to conform .
5 ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high .
6 I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this .
7 Now , because everything we did or said might have had some effect on John , I found it hard to relax about any aspect and always felt that we had to do more , be more efficient , keep up the pressure .
8 The main problem was that we had to do it with a RELIANT ROBIN three wheeler car , looking remarkably similar to Del Boy 's .
9 We told that we had to do some preliminary research for possible television programmes .
10 We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women .
11 The work , work something something scheme and and they , they 'd refurbish it , all th th that we had to do was to pay for the materials , they provided the labour .
12 ‘ It was so wet , ’ Peter says , ‘ that we had to paint the mud green to make it look like grass .
13 That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department .
14 All that we had to say to them was that we intended to tax them more severely .
15 And Seve 's back was a real pain — the cold got to it and it troubled him so much that we had to go and find a physiotherapist .
16 After getting the flying bag and doing all the planning and paying Operations , we were so hungry that we had to go and eat at what turned out to be an excellent restaurant where all the airport employees go as well as the passengers .
17 But this did n't necessarily mean , from my point of view , that we had to go around with Oliver .
18 Alright , fair enough , you accepted what we 've been saying for ages that we had to go to voluntary competitive tendering right .
19 One of those lessons was that we had to align the needs of the platform with those of the systems .
20 And he revealed : ‘ We sat down and took stock after losing to Leicester and decided that we had to stop feeling sorry for ourselves . ’
21 ‘ The family situation became so bad that we had to depart .
22 It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains .
23 This leads to our second reason for feeling that we had to explain how women have come so far : when women achieved the vote little else changed .
24 Erm I mean the one could very easily have have got er some form of dermatitis with all the you know various oils and stuff that we had to put our hands in .
25 However , the prospect of the difficult trading conditions continuing , when taken together with our heavy debt position , led us at the mid-year to conclude that we had to put the group 's finances onto a more sustainable basis .
26 We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you
27 The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first , and then improve our public services .
28 I think that er one of the things that we had to examine at national level er and this was done erm after I became a full time officer , erm there 'd usually be a procedure in the national agreement er whereby first of all if we registered failure to agree at domestic level , erm with the management , the next stage was to draw in the district secretary .
29 ‘ The fact that we had to chase the game meant it was tailor-made for Spartak .
30 Well one of the commonest complaints that we had to deal with was er when your time was up at twelve o'clock you they usually kept you working until about five or ten past twelve .
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