Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To work with a company where you have to teach the basic idea of the movement is an interesting challenge . ’ |
| 2 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So I had to spend the whole morning trying to organise another venue . |
| 4 | ‘ Once the quads were born , everything stopped , except we had to get the top floor converted into a nursery , ’ John said . |
| 5 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 6 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 7 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 8 | The Ndorrobo were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game , something a Masai would never do . |
| 9 | If I had to name the twentieth-century figure who reminds me most of corduroys , it would have to be Albert Einstein . |
| 10 | If I had to give the best pen picture I could contrive of Harold Wilson , I would describe him as an immensely intelligent man , rather less — by my standards — than half-educated . |
| 11 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
| 12 | If she had to bribe the wretched receptionist she would . |
| 13 | It was just the kind of chance she could n't miss , and if she had to miss the next flight home she was sure Lord C would understand . |
| 14 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 15 | If you have to spend the major part of the day in an office , house or factory , can you open the windows ? |
| 16 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't get home if you have to go the that play , give me ring . |
| 17 | What 's more , if you have to buy the same machine for more money elsewhere , you can also claim the difference in price from the original supplier . |
| 18 | Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ . |
| 19 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 20 | Future generations in both the North and the South will not forgive our generation if they have to bear the future cost . |
| 21 | " I was tip nearly all night because I had to lead the first devotions at the High Council , with all those experienced and senior leaders of the Army world . " |
| 22 | Because you had to have the stern anchor to keep the buckets off the face of what you was dredging cos if you did n't your dredge 'd go ahead too much and er you had big problems there and you would n't be able to dredge . |
| 23 | Because you have to take the last number off it . |
| 24 | Partly because he had to take the daily grind and brunt of this hugely assured and powerful boy 's pains of growth . |
| 25 | He said because it had to cross the busy East Coast line at Darlington the timing was crucial and did not allow for a call at Allen 's West . |
| 26 | It also did me a world of good , for I had to study the basic faith , teaching and life and express it in as simple words as possible . |
| 27 | But you should cast to the swim using a silhouette marker on the horizon , thus giving you practice for when you have to use the same silhouette for guidance in darkness . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ Fred and I will have to leave now as we have to catch the early train in the morning , Mary . |
| 29 | The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy . |
| 30 | The British found a role as recent emancipators in advising others , though they had to acknowledge the continued participation of British capital and goods in the slave trade and the possession of slaves by British functionaries abroad . |