Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year .
2 A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem .
3 They , by contrast , did not have to return the money they had received in compensation from the Republic .
4 She said people did not have to view the show if they were likely to find it offensive and while she found some photographs disturbing they should still be shown so people could form their own opinions .
5 Although the liquidators did not have to release the transcripts , this could result in an injustice to the defendants in the criminal proceedings .
6 The three birds in the ‘ opened ’ treatment that drunk the milk in the training session did not have to open the container .
7 One did not have to oppose the war to oppose its consequences ; and there was nothing in the least unpatriotic about the demands for ‘ equality of sacrifice ’ .
8 As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account .
9 It would save her poor feet if she did not have to mount the stairs to the attic .
10 She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves .
11 A choice between debt and equity was made on the assumption that this choice did not have to stand the test of time .
12 For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness .
13 People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts .
14 Since central government had always paid for new building , local districts and services did not have to face the cost of using buildings and capital , and hence tended to waste space and capital assets .
15 The assassin did not have to enter the room and , in killing Cosmas , destroyed all the evidence except for that small scorch mark on the other side of the door . ’
16 Moreover , corporates issuing directly in the CP market did not have to bear the costs associated with reserve requirements , requirements which encouraged the banks themselves to favour off balance sheet instruments .
17 Yes , but you did n't have to do the work of the departments .
18 Their grandparents had made the lounge into a bedroom so that Grandad did n't have to do the stairs with his bad legs and a bedroom had been turned into a sitting room and furnished with a table , chairs and sideboard that her parents had acquired when they got married though they had no house to put it in .
19 One horseman revealed that he could jade a horse standing , say , on the sandy apron outside an Inn simply by walking round him and unobtrusively dropping one of the obnoxious powders in the sand , especially in front of him : ‘ You did n't have to touch the horse , but that would stop him . ’
20 did n't have to answer the questions
21 I did n't have to mention the flaps for sticking it together .
22 She thanked God that they did n't have to use the shower where Forster lay .
23 If she did n't stop to rest she did n't have to think and if she did n't think she did n't have to feel and if she did n't have to feel she did n't have to grieve the death of her husband .
24 Customers and journalists did n't have to take the company 's word for it .
25 At least , looking on the bright side , he did n't have to take the shots himself .
26 I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds .
27 I thanked Paul 's wife for doing all the cooking , whereupon she remarked that she did n't mind because it meant that she did n't have to watch the Trek videos or play the games .
28 After haggling with the airline official and trying to make sure that I did n't have to pay the charges with foreign currency , the woman in charge suddenly said : ‘ All right , pay in Iraqi dinars ! ’
29 did n't have to pay the costs , it did n't really arise
30 At dinner that night we were discussing the whole affair and I said : " Oh well , you ca n't make an omelette without breaking some eggs , " which led to the classic retort from Ed Prior , my engineer : " Yes , but you did n't have to break the whisk ! "
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