Example sentences of "[conj] we have [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When we decided to start Headline , we felt that we had to identify a position for ourselves in the market , to persuade agents to bring their authors to us , authors to come to us , booksellers to support us . |
| 2 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 3 | This means that we have to specify a number of assumptions , and those we have chosen are intended to conform with the Keynesian view of how the economy works and at the same time to simplify the analysis in a way which enables us to see clearly how DD unemployment can arise . |
| 4 | I think that we have to start a movement first of all with a recognition of where we are united and a recognition of where we are different . |
| 5 | We 're still limited by sexism , but at the same time we 're bombarded with images telling us that we have to achieve a lot . |
| 6 | Barrow said : ‘ We have only nine signed professionals at the moment so we had to make a start somewhere for the future . |
| 7 | We had no right to involve Frank in any battle of wills between Mazzin and his colleagues , so we had to avoid a confrontation . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs . |
| 9 | I mean personally I think one of the difficulties in the colleges is that they do still have a sense of being at schools , and when you have an atmosphere which is like school you 're tacitly given people permission to act as if they were at school , and so we have a and that activity may not always be very adult , so we have to find a way of changing the environment of the colleges . |
| 10 | ‘ We do , but there 's never enough good clothing to go round so we have to keep a check on who 's had what . |
| 11 | The problem was then pointed out to us and we had to employ a plumber to put matters right . |
| 12 | We used to do needlework and we had to make a needlework apron in gingham , with lots of pockets for your buttons , and your thread , and your bottle of gin and all that … . |
| 13 | I was a passenger in a microlight and just after taking off the engine spluttered and we had to make an emergency landing . |
| 14 | I would imagine the plaster wall have to be replaced cos there 's a lot of work that needs to be done on t we 've already had to deal with the plastering once , in fact we would n't have noticed cos we had n't seen it before but what happened is that the the frame of the hall particularly shrank so that we had gaps in between where the plastering was and where the wood was and we had to have a couple of men that we used for this , erm come in with lime plaster and fill in all the cracks for a week or two . |
| 15 | And we had to keep an eye open for police patrols . |
| 16 | ‘ At one point things got out of hand and we had to organise a group of MPs a Make-up Patrol crew to follow the actors around to see that they did n't eat anything or do anything that would affect the prosthetic face gear . ’ |
| 17 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 18 | There 's an old saying do n't get mad , get even , and the only way we 're gon na get even with this government and we have to learn a lesson from history , is to do to this government what unfortunately we had to do in nineteen seventy nine and if any government deserve to be taken on , then it 's this Tory government . |
| 19 | She clings on to me as we go up the stairs and we have to rest a couple of times on the way . |
| 20 | Still , you 'll be safer right under the wall until we have to make a run for it . ’ |
| 21 | And those are the three things get that right plus a compliment slip and a letter heading , because if we have to lift a logo if that if we had to lift that off er you know photocopy wo n't er photocopy wo n't do , so we we take a compliment slip or letter heading . |
| 22 | Erm one thing that may hel will help is a compliment slip or a letter heading if we have to lift a logo it 's difficult from a photocopy |
| 23 | If we have to make a comparison between the individual approaches , I think that channel two felt we had to be punished for our sins while Channel 4 took the more sanguine view that for so long as love and sex exist , television might as well look on , an electronic voyeuristic intermediary . |
| 24 | Ah ah it was but it was sanctioned but we had to sign a contract with them . |
| 25 | erm Every year it does n't normally get in the press but we have to do a deal with all the federations abroad , the Swedes , the Danes , everybody and erm the Danes could n't erm accept what we put to them this year . |
| 26 | Do n't need cont er do n't need banker 's orders and they do n't need cheques but we have to have an order from the company . |
| 27 | ‘ The road is too narrow for a pedestrian refuge but we have to consider a pedestrian crossing or something to improve safety . ’ |
| 28 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm never scared , we do n't get hurt because we have to wear a head guard . |
| 30 | It was only in the beginning , when we needed money badly , when we had to spend a lot on the house . ’ |