Example sentences of "we have to make " in BNC.

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1 He sat on this mower you see and and er as it cut the sheafed it off you see and we 'd to make bands , y you know with pieces of s er And then the lifters put that on the bands and bound them and through the the site .
2 Do we have to make a decision .
3 For the chief sub-editor , Daniel Vernet , it has not been an easy transition : ‘ We had to make sure that the paper read as a single publication , but that each section stood up on its own , while avoiding undue repetition , ’ he explains .
4 ‘ The problems of distribution and the various changes that we had to make to establish ourselves in Scotland made me think that if I just swung the compass I 'd land up in Paris . ’
5 So we had to make radical changes .
6 The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’
7 We had to make a ring out of peanut dough .
8 Since we had to make love where we could , it was always furtive and not always satisfactory .
9 B. T. We had to make sure — it was the strictness on our part — that gangs were n't allowed to gather on the corner .
10 we had to make the most of it !
11 We had to make a forced landing at Jever Luftwaffe Air Base just a few seconds in front of two Tornados on finals , making the runway a little slippy with the last few drops of oil leaking out of our crankcase .
12 We had to make sure they did n't think we were a bunch of supermen and that they were aware that things could go wrong , ’ said a source .
13 We had to make absolutely sure that her dressing-room number was kept secret , and tracker dogs checked for explosives before she arrived .
14 We used to do needlework and we had to make a needlework apron in gingham , with lots of pockets for your buttons , and your thread , and your bottle of gin and all that … .
15 I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing .
16 For example if you had the London Mozart players here as we frequently did and frequently played to full houses , then even with a hundred percent house there was a subsidy required of something like seven or eight pounds per seat , in order to meet the cost of presenting that particular concert and we 've done it for years but sadly when we had to make cuts that was one of things the board decided they had to cut up they had to save money somehow .
17 In my climbing heyday we had to make do mostly with faith and a little friction .
18 In 1981 , when I left , there was no surgical alcohol available and we had to make do with boiled water .
19 I mean , when we came here , as I say , we had nothing , our children , if they wanted erm any entertainment we had to make our own entertainment , which we did .
20 We had to make a hollow in the mud , and we lay there like swallows : we used to long for the dark so we could stand up and straighten our legs .
21 Well , we had to make a better road through the forest , although I see through the window that it 's grown up a bit recently .
22 We had to make and we used to have to take this milk , I used to take it about five o'clock in the morning .
23 It was a busier time for us because we had to feed the the the six of them w we put them into a big shed and they just slept there but we we gave them their dinner , they managed to make their own breakfast and their tea whatever They had bread and stuff like that but we had to make their dinner for them .
24 Er but in order to introduce reasonable facilities for shop stewards , we had to make approaches to the management over a period of time .
25 Fuel was difficult to come by after we left the forest , and when we reached the plains that stretched to the Webi Shebeli we had to make do with dry cattle dung .
26 And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen .
27 We improve our operating margins , reduced our bad debts , and even though we had to make some reductions in numbers , the reorganisation costs were down on 1991 .
28 Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ .
29 We had to make do with a water-taxi . ’
30 We had to make the game all-ticket so no-one came thinking they could get in on the day .
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