Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We worked with two pens in the one hand , one for black ink and one for red , and at each weather station we had to draw in the symbols for wind speed and direction , barometric pressure , temperature , cloud type , amount and height , and precipitation , all in black , and the wet bulb temperature and dew point in red .
2 When we were four and five we had to sleep in the afternoons on long mats made of shiny grass that left ribbing marks on our skin .
3 Then we had to go to the banks and change our covenants , which were based on TI 's net tangible assets , which in turn were damaged by the write-off .
4 Annoyingly , youngsters were playing games in the lifts , and we had to resort to the stairs .
5 We had to withdraw into the hills , taking the civilian population with us .
6 So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth .
7 We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened .
8 Evening courses were arranged on all sorts of subjects , which we as shift workers were unfortunately not able to take advantage of fully , as we had to work during the evenings .
9 We have to talk to the managers and tell them it 's important .
10 Decisions are made decisions are made erm there that we and we have to live with the consequences of them .
11 In the mundane we have to live by the laws of the mundane and these do not always concur with the laws of the transcendent .
12 We have to appeal to the parents , asking them to think about the mothers whose sons will never come home . ’
13 Thérèse said : the Church says we have to pray for the Jews to be converted to the one true faith .
14 A few unpublished annual reports and fragmentary descriptions are all we have to weigh against the claims made by Heber and those who cite him .
15 For the moment , however , it is sufficient to note that the formation of interest groups is a problem of the highest order ; the group world can not be taken as a given but needs to be explained ; and we have to attend to the determinants of individual consciousness and awareness , and the part they play in the development of groups and political conflict .
16 First , we have to attend to the facts with respect to different periods of our politics .
17 ‘ The extra court sitting is on the same day as the other hearings so we have to rush between the courts .
18 Here we have to distinguish between the police and ordinary mortals .
19 I believe some of the things we have to share with the Europeans and learn from them are very urgent in Britain at the moment .
20 We have to work with the garrimperos we have to try and convince 'em .
21 We have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing .
22 ‘ And we have to look at the movements of the BNP and what they are doing .
23 To understand this process , we have to look at the experiences of students themselves , and the meanings they give to their education .
24 If a new road is propo proposed we have to look at the opportunities provided by that ro road .
25 I 'm not I do n't necessarily want to dispute them erm all I would say is that we have to look at the implications do n't just look at the change in the traffic flows and take them as a as a point , you have to look at the implications of those changes in traffic flows .
26 We are up before dawn to prepare food , and when we come home , we have to look after the children , clean and cook . ’
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