Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it easier for them was it easy for them to pick up work or would they have been woul would they have to face a long time on the dole or ? |
| 2 | Mm why do they have to have a green field site and start again ? |
| 3 | It was upstairs again , and now twenty-past eight , and she was informed by her apparent new friend that they had to join a small team to clean the toilets , which meant bringing the buckets down stairs , emptying them in the larger buckets arrayed along the wall by a side door ; then wash out each utensil under a pump and return it to its particular cubicle . |
| 4 | they had to call a special engineer |
| 5 | They had to call a special engineer |
| 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 | Because the governor 's palace was in a state of very sad repair and they had to put a new roof in it . |
| 8 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 9 | They had to answer a single question . |
| 10 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 11 | They say they had to stop a passing cleaner to take a plate from her trolley |
| 12 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 13 | Sometimes they had to attend the fashionable church in Mayfair where Canon Broome 's brother-in-law was rector . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 16 | Julias Lukasiewicz , from Carlton University in Ottawa , Canada , said that if new high speed trains were to be successful in North America then they had to include a new track like the Japanese Bullet trains or the french TGV . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , to receive their Urban Programme funding , they had to produce an annual programme for submission to the Department of the Environment . |
| 23 | They had to assume a national debt of 4300 million guilders ( US $1130 million ) of which 1.291 million guilders ( $339 million ) must be paid in foreign currency . |
| 24 | In fact once submerged they had to find a red rod and drag themselves along it to the other side of the stage ; more than one mother screamed in fear when she saw the show . |
| 25 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 26 | With François Mitterrand 's re-election for a second seven-year term in 1988 , they had to face the demoralising prospect of being out of power for 14 years . |
| 27 | Next they had to face the assembled school and were given three cheers . |
| 28 | There was nothing there — men had to make their own markers or monuments , and eventually they had to build an entire landscape of monuments . |
| 29 | They had to dismantle the entire table at the Highwayman pub in Berwick , Northumbria , to free him . |
| 30 | It was not until the next morning that the local council realised they had to repair a large hole in the middle of the square . |