Example sentences of "have to work [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has to work two ways of course . |
| 2 | Every man jack has to work ten days each year for nothing as a kind of tax . |
| 3 | I shall have to work all day tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | But pushing down on the legs stops them from straightening ; the legs will then have to work five times harder in order to compensate . |
| 5 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 6 | And women are as likely as not to be left to fend for themselves , living crowded into one room with all the children and having to work all night sewing or cleaning to make ends meet . |
| 7 | Well Yes I suppose that the thing is if she 's having to work extra hours , she ought to be paid for them . |
| 8 | But with the resurgence in business , those who are left are having to work long hours to ensure that the quality of service to clients is not affected , and she believes that she will have to start recruiting again before long . |
| 9 | The problems of poverty are further exacerbated by many parents having to work full time and needing substitute or day care , holiday and after-school provision , all of which are in short supply and costly . |
| 10 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 11 | We had to work all night for ours . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Of course , he had to work all hours . ’ |
| 13 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 14 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 15 | Our Spanish friend Juan , who had given us so much time , had to work next day , so we needed a replacement to help tackle the bureaucratic process of preparing the body for despatch to Britain . |
| 16 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
| 17 | Often they have to work 12 hours a day to fulfil contracts . |
| 18 | In other words , in general , manual workers have to work more hours per week to achieve a gross average wage which is still about 25 per cent less than that of the non-manual worker . |
| 19 | You have to work these things out before you go to France your money wo n't you ? |
| 20 | ‘ I have to work this weekend . |