Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [prep] be [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I had to be near the edge to use material like that .
2 I 've to be in the library in two hundred and seven seconds . ’
3 I have to be at the hospital at four o'clock . ’
4 ‘ What a pity I have to be at the Brooksby plant this weekend , ’ he said .
5 I have to be at the airport before six tomorrow , so I 'm going to bed early . ’
6 I might get you a couple of rooms — but then again , at some point I have to be in the rooms to do that . ’
7 I judge that in the time it takes the lift to creep the height of the building I have to be out the door and on my way .
8 In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’
9 To qualify as a model foster parent you had to be at the wealthier level of the middle class , with an already established family ; it helped if you lived in the country ( away from urban enticements ) , spoke a little German , and could tolerate moody children who suffered bouts of depression and were inclined to long silences .
10 Feeling more put out than embarrassed when the theatre management turned them away , the six complained that they had understood that ‘ you had to be in the nude in order to get in ’ .
11 Not least among these is that you have to be beyond the peak of the Laffer curve to begin with .
12 ‘ I had n't realised how hard you have to work , and how co-ordinated you have to be with the more difficult movements .
13 and they 'll get very worried , and it 's quite a difficult area because you have to be on the look out for something that 's not right , but you do n't want people to get er very worried because those feet are going to be very mobile and doing non walking thing until the child walks , they 're also very fat and podgy are n't they little babies ' feet ?
14 So you have to be at the main entrance for
15 You have to be in the right place at the right time , you hear there 's a place going , then you grab it . ’
16 You have to be in the correct frame of mind to draw masses of money to you . ’
17 women are not sexy skinny women are not sexy , really skinny women we have to be like the Madonna type woman and I think that the , the , its about money and its about co , its about the consumer and about money and about making money from an image that somebody somewhere has seen as the normal perfect woman and the norm can be any thing it could be whatever you want it to be .
18 What kind of items license them and where do they have to be in the sentence .
19 Er well n not really because they had to be in the union .
20 They have to be on the outside right , cos as soon as it goes through a piece of material you 'll lose all the high frequency to it .
21 In court he has to be on the alert every moment and is watched by a highly trained expert on the other side who pounces upon his slightest mistake .
22 It is easy to find out who deals with A&R in a record company , and it has to be worth the legwork to find the person specializing in your type of music .
23 So , gratitude it has to be for the glimpse of a hornbeam 's golden rain of catkin pollen in a sheltered copse where , among primroses and the first bluebells , sorrel shows its delicate pink flowers and ( useful in salads ) triple leaflets , which Saint Patrick used to demonstrate the nature of the Trinity .
24 Because er it 's a that 's that 's just the way it has to be for the present , at the end of the
25 If it is to sell in Japan it has to be in the form , and of the characteristics , that the Japanese wish and require .
26 I also have an automatic washing machine but it has to be by the sink for the water to be pumped out and it has no wheels .
27 I think it has to be alongside the other .
28 The offering had to cost him something — one of his herd of cattle or flock of sheep and goats ( a bird was permitted for the poor ) , and it had to be of the best — a male without blemish .
29 The basic elementary processes of chemistry were understood and the essential analytical tools were already available ; the existence of a limited number of chemical elements , composed of different numbers of basic units ( atoms ) , and compounds of elements composed of basic multi-atomic units of molecules , and some idea of the rules of these combinations was familiar , as indeed it had to be for the great advances in the essential activity of chemists , the analysis and synthesis of various substances .
30 He said : ‘ It was a battling performance , which it had to be on the day .
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