Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum , what do we have to do out in the garden ? |
| 2 | Dad do we have to we have to come up with a name . |
| 3 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 4 | After two exhausting hours we had to give in to the flames . |
| 5 | Then again for reasons of established cultural preference we had to go back to the Audit Commission and ask them to translate £6.358 million into ‘ real men ’ , for we had difficulty in trying to sell such an alien concept to the police mind . |
| 6 | After lunch we did a bit more skiing and then we had to go back to the hotel . |
| 7 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |
| 8 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 9 | We had to put up with the traffic . |
| 10 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 11 | The rest we had to transport up to the second and fourth floors , up steep , dark steps ! |
| 12 | We had to get on to the barge before these two characters unwittingly alerted the army sentries across the road , or before the Friends of the Tourists turned up looking for us . |
| 13 | We had to get through to the ministry that in informatics , you do n't have originals and copies , you just have the information issued at a certain time by the sender . |
| 14 | which was n't an unreasonable sort of target , erm we would get through everybody we had to get through in a year . |
| 15 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 16 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 17 | We had to stand back from the edge of the pavement as their wheels splashed along the teeming gutters . |
| 18 | It says … , ’ he held the fluttering sheet of foolscap firmly to the table , … we have to lie down against an inner wall — under the table if possible . |
| 19 | Things begin to crack ; sometimes the cracks become gaps and then we can open them up to make spaces full of creative possibility , but sometimes the cracks become fissures and everything collapses and we have to scratch around in the rubble looking for bits of junk that we can cobble together into something ripe with meaning . |
| 20 | That does n't mean we have to go around in a great lather of gratitude all the time . |
| 21 | " There 's no entrance now to the back of the house ; we have to go round to the front . |
| 22 | No we are gon na watch Playbus and then we 'll have a bath and then we have to go up to the shops because today is mummy and daddy 's wedding anniversary . |
| 23 | We have to go up over the fell . " |
| 24 | We have to go back to the city . ’ |
| 25 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 26 | We have to go out on a call — kiddy stuck on some railings . |
| 27 | ‘ And why the devil we have to rush off at a moment 's notice , I do n't know … ’ |
| 28 | There is no institutional culture here , which there is at the BBC , and that 's what we have to trade on in the next 10 years . |
| 29 | ‘ We have to get out of the house . |
| 30 | ‘ We have to get back to a position where investors want to invest in unquoted companies and believe they 're still getting a good return , but I do n't think that will be the 30% they might have been promised . ’ |