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

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1 So we had to redecorate the house very quickly because I could n't bear it . ’
2 Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane .
3 So we had to shrink the hall .
4 So we had to rent a forklift truck from somewhere , then manhandle the saw into the workshop .
5 So we had to get the bobbies down to kick the door in , and you can imagine at three o'clock in the morning , some some deaf and dumb couple , there 's this big coloured bobby le leaning over and waking them up .
6 So we have to discuss the B-H curves , and I will include a few more things , but you must realize that there is a lot more to it .
7 So we have to make the bath tub and then fill it with water .
8 but he was arrested and sacked so we have to have a bouncer
9 We had to take the door off there , there used to be a door on there , but to get this long sideboard in we had to take the door off
10 As Bishop Empey argued to the synod : ‘ Somehow we have to nail the lie that permissiveness flows from the Church of Ireland and that morality is the sole possession of but one Church in this land ’ ( Irish Times , 22 May 1986 ) .
11 Remote though this area can be , even the minor roads are generally good , although once we had to switch the Citroën 's self-levelling suspension to ‘ high ’ to increase ground clearance through a ford .
12 Usually we have to look a bit more closely for numbers that will cancel .
13 ‘ If they found a point they wished to query us on we had to give an instant , pressurised response , ’ he said .
14 However , quite a few teachers took an interest in what I was trying to do , especially the biology teachers , who were impressed with my knowledge of birds and conservation , and my English teachers , who soon heard all about my interest because whenever we had to give a talk in class , I would launch into a full lecture on rearing and handling owls and other birds of prey .
15 It is as we know going to be grandly opening , it has cost more than we anticipated as Bill 's probably said , we found out we had to put the foundations on a raft , because er ,
16 ‘ In order to keep the sea out we have to build a wall , but a promenade will be constructed above road level and people will be able to look over the wave wall . ’
17 She tried to explain that it was only the symptoms that had gone , and that now we had to tackle the causes .
18 We 'd always been boastful , conspicuous , triumphalist in our love ; now we had to tell the World .
19 Now we have to accommodate the tastes of partners of immediate family as well as our own offspring , so choice is careful indeed .
20 Now we have to use the tools and techniques learned through TOP to make it happen .
21 Now we have to repay the supporters . ’
22 ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’
23 We 've all been told we 've got smelly armpits so now we have to buy the stuff .
24 Often we have to change the denominator to 10,100 or 1000 by division .
25 and one woman said that the year , nineteen twenty one she was a bride of eighteen years old and she took Good Housekeeping and she 's got the whole lot although she 's now a very old lady , and she said my first lot of housekeeping was done in a house in Wales where we had water from the well we had to build the fires up by hand we could get Welsh coal cheaply but they had to you know use paper and kindle and we swept with brooms and my life has never been easier she said I had three children in four years and my life has never been easier she said and all these modern things came in life has got more and more complicated and difficult !
26 Well we have to take a chance .
27 I think it was just the thought that if one shift did n't turn up or if people stopped turning up , then others would n't turn up and it 'd just escalate until everyone was just sitting at home in front of the fire and the quarries would function as normal , and the fact , well certainly with me , I thought well we have to make an appearance to show people that we are still on strike and keep , you know everyone who drives past us will be saying , ah hello what 's up with them ?
28 ‘ However , equally we have to face the fact that almost all imported mahogany comes from Brazil and much of it is being traded illegally .
29 she did n't we had to manhandle the caravan Orford otherwise , you know
30 Well surely wo n't we have to have a meeting on that just like , do do n't they have a meeting for sex education ?
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