Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Sometimes they had to attend the fashionable church in Mayfair where Canon Broome 's brother-in-law was rector . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 10 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Next they had to face the assembled school and were given three cheers . |
| 14 | They had to dismantle the entire table at the Highwayman pub in Berwick , Northumbria , to free him . |
| 15 | They have to guide the new voters in the exercise of the franchise ; to guide them quietly , and without saying what they are doing , but still to guide them . |
| 16 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 17 | as if the park wardens and scientists do not have enough problems already , they have to watch the ecological implications of their control programmes . |
| 18 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment at the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 19 | And they have to deposit the first year 's payment to the clinic as soon as they arrive . |
| 20 | ‘ What people are concerned about is that , if they train certifieds or AATs , they do n't have to cope with the bureaucracy , they do n't have to be formal training offices and so they do n't have to be quite so concerned that they have to provide the right sort of additional courses for people to attend to back up their exams . |
| 21 | They have to run the beastly place and do all the work . ’ |
| 22 | Future generations in both the North and the South will not forgive our generation if they have to bear the future cost . |
| 23 | They have to learn the dominant language , Mandarin , and adopt many of the cultural values of the majority Han Chinese in order to make progress in education . |
| 24 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 25 | Pensioners will believe that they have to pay the full amount unless they query it with their local authority or unless the authority has a list . |
| 26 | But first they have to solve the Irish problem , see off the Dutch , and remember how Egypt looked to an Englishman before Suez . |