Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] have [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I would not like to have to make a ruling over any Highsmith novel as to whether it is a crime novel or a suspense novel but , whichever it is , it shows what can be done at the frontiers of crime fiction . |
2 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
3 | If you had not so stupidly bade me keep quiet , I should have done the trick long since , and you would not have had to leave the place at all . |
4 | Seton had hardly spoken to any since his son 's death ; Gray was never loquacious ; and Ramsay not only again felt something like guilt at deserting Berwick in its hour of need , but did not relish having to tell the Randolph sisters the terrible news and the possibility that their brother might be one of the casualties . |
5 | At the beginning of the 1980 's a typeface would have cost around $4,500 and you would probably have had to wait a couple of weeks while it was digitised from some master copy . |
6 | She felt flattered by the suggestion , not that any of it was true of course , but she did n't want to have to explain the time she spent on her own in the flat , inventing things to do . |
7 | We do n't want to have to do the work twice . " |
8 | On Silver and Knitmaster punchcard machines , you will sometimes want to knit circular rows with the punchcard in. ( if the garment is knitted using a punchcard , you do n't want to have to remove the card every time you cast on ) . |
9 | Perhaps they did n't want to have to share the world . |
10 | He bellowed with laughter after she had said it , but later was serious and said , ‘ I would n't like to have to see the suffering . ’ |
11 | It must be a nice spot to live , though I would n't like to have to pay the window-cleaner 's bill . |
12 | So this business of of understanding how it happened from the , in inverted commas , victim 's point of view um this business of understanding the subsequent effects , this business of understanding the extent , ah are all enormously problematic and um it 's one of these things I would n't particularly like to have to design a survey of because it 's absolutely fraught with difficulty but nevertheless some some attempts have been made um as I have indicated . |
13 | ‘ Ah , but it ca n't be very evident or I would n't have had to spend an hour and half in the X-ray Department and they would n't have had to take a Complete album of me . ’ |