Example sentences of "[adv] they have [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load .
2 When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit .
3 Of course , when one was a child many years ago winter could be an advantage , and if the storm was bad enough they had to close the school , which was wonderful .
4 So they had to abandon the Ferreira Hotel and most of their possessions .
5 So they had to take the bath completely out
6 So they had to get a chap that knew his business and I think he was entitled to get extra money .
7 Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions .
8 So they have to make a choice : should they stay Japanese , or try to blend in with the locals ?
9 Finally they had to accept the dismissals .
10 But yesterday they had to accept a report by officials calling for commercial waste collection charges which could result in bills of up to £2,000 a year for some users .
11 Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps .
12 Now they had to watch every move in the City , snap up every bit of stray gossip and try to assess its true worth , take daily , even hourly , soundings of the railway intelligence .
13 Theseus made his way back through the labyrinth and out into the fresh night air where Ariadne was waiting for him Now they had to rescue the Athenians and make their escape .
14 Chicago police beat Al Capone now they have to beat the fans
15 So often they have to pay the price of innovations , and those who watch their activities and pick out the most promising , usually devise the most profitably and sustainable systems .
16 Originally they had to drop a rank for the privilege of joining .
17 A little further on they had to skirt an area where a gang of workmen were shovelling rubble onto a lorry .
18 And they had a strap and they used to carry all the weight on their foreheads and on , and through their necks , and they used to climb , we went up to seventeen and a half thousand feet , and they climbed up with all these bags and they cooked for us and they got river water for us and sometimes they had to walk a kilometre to the river to go and get the water and then carry it back again er with the band around their heads and so initially it seemed quite difficult to accept them doing this for you , but for them it was a job and erm it was probably the only sort of job that they could get .
19 The large launches sent out to do the repairs cost £300 per hour to run and sometimes they have to do a couple of days steaming to attend . ’
20 I cleared that and fixed the vice up and they said I could do that and I used the and that in their place and er then they had to quit the premises completely , did n't they ?
21 Then they had to survive the River Severn eel harvest — most are sold to East Europe and Germany where they 're a delicacy .
22 Then they had to smelt the ore .
23 Thus if a VAT registered person or company sells a commercial type ( even a 1948 80″1 then they HAVE to charge the tax .
24 you see I moved a bit more now but and I I 've still got good hearing er apart from this ear here , this ear , I ca n't hear so well , quite so well , this side , you see so I always have to say excuse me while I , hang on while I turn off the television , you see , and then they have to wait a minute till I turn it off and then what I do is because I have this phone extension put in
25 And then they have to turn the land well over .
26 To get there they had to cross the mud , and sank in it to their ankles , but below the soft surface the foreshore was hard here , and although it was a filthy journey it was n't particularly difficult .
27 The council says the theatre 's a major drain on their resources and to avoid shutting it down completely they had to make the change .
28 Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires .
29 Their answers form the subject of the opening sessions when they have to produce a team answer to each question .
30 Sociologists are only too well aware that ideas arise in particular social climates and contexts , and yet they have to seek a way of standing apart from society and analysing it objectively .
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