Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of having they had to come through the Dock Commission all of the men , they wanted so and so men for that boat , they used to come through to me . |
| 2 | To do this they had to trespass on the plaintiff 's land . |
| 3 | In the end they had to go over the Bishop 's head , obtaining the authorization they wanted from the Pope . |
| 4 | like , you know at that age I knew they had to go across the sea . |
| 5 | And so er they had to go to the workhouse you see and I can see it now in this er this cobbled street and this er cab er drawn by a horse of course , hansom cab . |
| 6 | They consulted their street map but , before they could work out their route , the little girl told them that they had to go down the hill , over the bridge , past another church , turn to the right and they would come to the church for which they were looking . |
| 7 | Wh while you 're on that madam chairman , I 've had two persons er contact me as regarding , you know playing field and er it 's a no go for dogs is n't it , and th and we therefore the people have mentioned they had to go down the side of the playing field onto the onto the old , and er have we an obligation to er to pave not pave it but er make it , it 's a very steep bank , a very steep old ladies dare n't go down , and they know they 're breaking the law by taking the dog in the in the er recreation ground , and I just wondered whether we had an obligation to er . |
| 8 | Well they could n't let me in , they had to go by the door . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm told the front rows in the Moore tragedy were so close that they had to bend at the waist to get in ’ , said Akpata . |
| 10 | There had been no retaliation by the MacIans , but they all knew they were ready for it if any had come , and who to thank for the readiness ; and no-one mentioned who they had to thank for the threat . |
| 11 | and erm , then of course when they reached Felixstowe , everything was a bit chaotic because th they had to sleep on the floor in the schools down there |
| 12 | Crucially , Realism provided a justification for the kind of foreign policy which the leaders of the USA felt that they had to undertake in the period immediately after the Second World War . |
| 13 | With luck the senior Girl would tell them precisely what they could or could not do , and when they had to return to the Club . |
| 14 | During the study days , the patients were fully ambulatory and could follow their preferred daily routine except that they had to return to the laboratory for their meals . |
| 15 | Their clothes were locked away so they had to remain in the dormitory . |
| 16 | But they had to take on the worry of people that could n't pay them . |
| 17 | As he explained when I met him , he became so angry when he read what they had to say about the Princess that he wanted to ring the editors and complain , but realized that , rather than spending every day on the telephone , a simpler solution was to stop reading them . |
| 18 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 19 | The justification for reserving this not uninfluential role to a small number of wealthy , landed families was that since they had to act as the Queen 's hosts when she visited the county , they needed a house big enough to accommodate her and her entourage . |
| 20 | He also stated that subversion had its roots in social injustice and that while he trusted the armed forces , they had to act within the Constitution and to respect human rights . |
| 21 | Alexandra wondered if there was a feature in it : successful younger women , the varied careers it was possible for them to take up these days , the chances they had to rise to the top in their chosen professions , whether or not those professions were less orthodox than the ones chosen by their male counterparts . |
| 22 | Somehow or other they had to get beneath the certainty and feed the seeds of doubt . |
| 23 | On one occasion a team of five men went down into the tunnels for which purpose they had to pass through the line of empty stabled cars . |
| 24 | The male chimps hunted with spectacular success , catching a big colobus monkey , which they had to bring to the ground to eat , rather than remaining in the trees as they usually do . |
| 25 | and erm Wickham Market had erm Machine Centre erm , that was used during the war for erm certain courses er particularly for erm tractor drivers , they used to er have a week 's course , they had to apply to the Education Committee and er we got these applications in and erm they spent a week at Wickham Market , then in they used to stay in lodgings if they came from great distances and erm they would learn about the maintenance of erm of tractors and er , I suppose it 's quite a good thing really because er , it was difficult to get any repairs done in those days |
| 26 | She had to leave the floor , they had to walk , that 's right , they had to walk on the concrete floor without tiles on for a long time |
| 27 | The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others . |
| 28 | Peasants were enticed away from subsistence agriculture because of the potential profits and , in order to buy the necessary equipment and fertilisers and to sell the final produce , they had to work through the market . |
| 29 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 30 | He instructed royal aides , like Sir Robert Fellowes , the Queen 's closest adviser , that they had to rally around the Queen . |