Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination . |
| 2 | We had to meet fire with fire . ’ |
| 3 | It can be , yeah we had a stop for lunch , we had to have cups of tea , we had to go to ou , out the back and have a fag cos we ca n't smoke in the office . |
| 4 | ‘ We had to fight fire with fire . |
| 5 | The trouble about that is , it 's now enforced upon us and that 's official target , we have to set priority of fire certificates because we need the money , bluntly , otherwise we have to find it elsewhere , so we give them a priority that they would n't otherwise have . |
| 6 | Fellow director Eryl Morris underlined the need for productivity improvements : ‘ We have to put programmes in place to drive down costs and push up return on sales . ’ |
| 7 | She misses it on Monday cos she goes to flute , she misses it , she wa- she sees it on Tuesday cos Chris takes Amy to ballet , she was , she misses it on Wednesday cos she goes skiing , she misses it on Thursday because we have to take Amy to uhum Brownies , she misses it on Friday cos of Amy 's swimming . |
| 8 | We have to go day by day . |
| 9 | ‘ It sounds terrible , but we have to go cap in hand begging for funds to keep solvent . |
| 10 | ‘ We have to open things to discussion . |
| 11 | Gerald Ronson , co-chairman of the fundraising committee , said : ‘ We have to use money from business because government funding is being cut back . ’ |
| 12 | We have to find criteria for anorexia |
| 13 | We have to find ways of managing waiting more effectively and keeping the customer ( be it general practitioner or patient ) informed . |
| 14 | The erm , importance of monitoring procedures can not be over-stressed because enable , to enable us to actually find out if these er , arrangements are working properly we do have to monitor the arrangements that are in place , and we have to provide details of monitor important for the members ' benefit , er , explaining how the budget is er , is being spent , and also bringing in information about the number of assessments , the levels of assessments , and all the other aspects that er , that make a new system work . |
| 15 | One element of weakness in this symposium is the need many of us have to take refuge in generality , anecdote and the familiar . |