Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 2 | And what sort of things might we have to encounter on the road ? ’ |
| 3 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 4 | Do we have to paint underneath the side ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 7 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 8 | Every instinct and all the forces in political democracy were against the surrender of sovereignty , but we had to move down the road towards accepting it . |
| 9 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | except for odd occasions in the winter when we had to go into the gym and dance with the birds ! ’ |
| 12 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 13 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 14 | That 's when the sirens went and we had to go to the shelter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 17 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 18 | Annoyingly , youngsters were playing games in the lifts , and we had to resort to the stairs . |
| 19 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 20 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 21 | we had , we had to swim to the bottom and do like a handstand |
| 22 | He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island . |
| 23 | We had to flee to the church refuge here . |
| 24 | We had to withdraw into the hills , taking the civilian population with us . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 27 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
| 28 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 29 | Oh , we had to wait at the border , we had in advance to get visas , and when we got there , things were very simple but nonetheless , we were very well received , and the person that I was staying with , lived in a flat , a very simple flat , but nonetheless , a very pleasant flat . |
| 30 | But as the water rose we had to break through the roof to escape . ’ |