Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw ourselves as having to do erm a considerable number of cross-sections for calculating , or enabling the P Q S to calculate earthworks quantities . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got eyes and it 's me that had to brush his clothes . |
| 3 | Peter says : ‘ I would like them to think if it was their brother , if it was them that had to sit there and watch their brother die in their arms , see how they would feel . |
| 4 | Honestly if it was them that had to stuff those navy blue fitted sheets into the automatic after he 's been home they 'd be Under No Delusions . |
| 5 | There 's this doorway with no light on and I trip over summat and have to grab a hold of the side . |
| 6 | It also seems to be the character of the trust in personam to which a later source , the fourth-century paraphrase of Gaius from Autun , means to refer in speaking of the beneficiary of a trust of a whole estate as having no right to take possession of the estate himself but having to claim it from the heir . |
| 7 | Divers found the waters were so murky that they could see nothing and had to make their search by touch . |
| 8 | Dig in they might … but after a worthy battle , the ground finally slipped away beneath them and had to settle for second place . |
| 9 | Michael was looking over the top of a cliff at them and had to fall over , hanging in mid-air . |
| 10 | Poor students at the university were long known as ‘ mealie students ’ because they took a sack of meal and salt lumps with them and had to make it last all term . |
| 11 | Is it having people looking at you or having to speak to a large crowd when you have never done that before ? |
| 12 | This leaves MI5 in the enviable position of being accountable to no one nor having to explain anything it does or is alleged to have done . |
| 13 | It was , so to speak , not something that had to happen . |
| 14 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 15 | I feel they are rooted in something that has to do with culture , with a sense of history , a sense of past , a sense of tradition . |
| 16 | ‘ This is something that has to happen , Jessamy . ’ |
| 17 | I accept it as part of something that has to happen . |
| 18 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 19 | It 's a terrible situation and one that has to change . |
| 20 | Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process . |
| 21 | they that has to go over to there , so |
| 22 | When they were younger he and Grandma had a little farm and I think that Grandma did not have an easy life with him and had to do a good bit of the farm work . |
| 23 | Rather than wake him by pulling the clothes off him and having to face the likely consequences , Mrs Stych put her housecoat over her nightgown , got a spare blanket out of her old hope chest , and eased herself down beside the chrysalis which was her husband . |
| 24 | Dear Boy , It must be very difficult for you sometimes I expect not having anyone and having to do all the shopping and cooking for yourself I know that when I was working I certainly could not have managed on my own , coming home tired and then making dinner your own dinner and then going upstairs to do some more work , what sort of life is that , though I know all about that because of course I did do that for three years almost , and I know how much happier I was when I knew there was someone waiting for me and having the dinner ready and keeping the house clean and all those things , or perhaps you people do n't think those things are important . |
| 25 | ‘ We managed to sell it as a going concern , but got next to nothing for it and had to take a massive write-off . |
| 26 | It should have started at Brands Hatch , but Jackie crashed it and had to race again in the 003 . |
| 27 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 28 | Now Taylor has experienced it and has to live with it . |
| 29 | ‘ New technology and computers — but at basic level for top management who know nothing about it but have to see an authority through a changeover ’ . |
| 30 | Perhaps I was ashamed of feeling sorry for myself and had to transfer the pity to something else . |