Example sentences of "[adv] to have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , with Eric on his way , I did n't think it would be a good idea to start another War only to have to abandon it in the middle of things and start dealing with the real world . |
| 2 | The purpose of such deeds seemed obscure — why carry a bike up a mountain only to have to push it down again ? |
| 3 | I am concerned that your correspondent rang Climbline at 7.15pm only to have to listen to that day 's forecast . |
| 4 | All we have are accounts , and in that part of the study our contrasting sources are those within the class and its social order , and those without , including , of course , the teacher unfortunate enough to have to tangle with the kids whose daily life-situation that classroom encompasses . |
| 5 | It is tedious enough to have to append footnotes to certain records springing from the county game , explaining that they were arrived at by contrived cricket . |
| 6 | It was bad enough to have to spend my days acting as occupational therapist to a bunch of linguistic basket-cases without having my social acquaintances dropping in to witness my degradation . |
| 7 | He began , " It is bad enough to have to give a talk at 9.00 am , anyway , without having to watch yourself doing it . " |
| 8 | It was bad enough to have to produce a mother who smelled of hens , worse to have all one 's guests disconcerted by the beady eyes of an old countrywoman . |
| 9 | Still , the linguistic approach is peculiar enough to have to offer rationalisations for itself . |
| 10 | Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’ |
| 11 | er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor . |
| 12 | ‘ There is n't much point ; you 're not going to live long enough to have to introduce me at parties . ’ |
| 13 | My father protested but , as Mrs Clamp pointed out , it was quite enough to have to look after two invalids in the one house without having an infant needing constant care as well . |
| 14 | Extreme discomfort in the legs , and sometimes the arms , leads sufferers to constantly move their legs around in bed , resulting in insomnia for themselves and anyone unfortunate enough to have to share a bed with them . |
| 15 | It made her hate Berndt even more to have to descend to such a feeble-minded stratagem . |
| 16 | The resistance to taking mental events as spatial seems also to have to do with something less specific , pertaining to those of them which are perceptual and also those which are representative . |
| 17 | well to have to see take the bloody thing off |
| 18 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 19 | In most cases the tenant will only close the premises if the tenant 's business is unprofitable , and therefore the last thing the tenant wants is then to have to reimburse the landlord for the landlord 's loss of rating relief . |
| 20 | Was it was it difficult then to have to have got a job in Nottingham , you had to go to Newark because it was w work was n't as ava as as er |
| 21 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 22 | I used sometimes to have to make an effort to be cheerful , but I have never had to restrain myself from bursting into violence and anger … |
| 23 | Very nice to be able to step out of used underwear and know it would be laundered and returned to its drawer pressed and scented , even better never to have to worry about clearing a table or washing up , but nevertheless there was something vaguely disconcerting about maids who went silently , sneakily about their duties under her very nose . |
| 24 | She was crazy about these clothes , delighted to have found an outfit she could wear every day , wanting , like a Chinese peasant , never to have to think about what to put on . |