Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day we had to report to the huge , ugly , frightening , hideous abattoir man who , in case you did n't know , lives , actually lives three streets away from us ! |
| 2 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 3 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 4 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 5 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 6 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 7 | She unhooked her cloak collar as we had to wait at the outer door of Marcus whilst two porters wheeled out an empty accident trolley . |
| 8 | To find out who was correct , we had to wait until the following morning and our debriefing with the major . |
| 9 | ‘ We had to get into the stable very early in the morning to feed and braid up the horses . |
| 10 | Yeah , we had to walk across the bloody fields for water ! |
| 11 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 12 | Well we ha went round wo we had to come off the bloody dance floor ! |
| 13 | So it , it was , I suppose we have to say in the past tense , it was , the National Anthem of Czechoslovakia . |
| 14 | We have to control for the other ways in which they might vary . |
| 15 | We have to rely on the occasional incident of this kind occurring naturally , and study that . |
| 16 | There is a distinct difference as we will detail ; but for the moment we have to return to the basic check for symmetry . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've talked to the good guys , now we have to talk to the bad guys . |
| 18 | I mean th , the amount of time we have to sit in the blasted garden anyway is er nothing in n it ? |
| 19 | While we all think that everyone should have unlimited access to public areas , we have to live in the real world and accept that all sports and hobbies are controlled in some way or other . |
| 20 | Anything else we have to do for the open day ? |
| 21 | The question is whether it was possible for an ancient Athenian to possess a social representation in this sense , or whether we have to wait until the modern age for social representations to appear . |
| 22 | I do not want to return to a world in which the lights go out , there is no money in the country , we have to turn to the International Monetary Fund , and investment in the leading industries has to be cut back . |
| 23 | We have to allow for the gradual loss of existing members — an allowance of 5% may be a reasonable figure . |
| 24 | We have to attend to the dynamic tension between constitutional theory and political practice , and to change over time . |
| 25 | For example , in France , we have to comply with the French plan comptable , so within a particular row you state the origin of the information , that is , which nominal ledger account you want to get it from — we have a fairly simple account code structure with cost centre account codes — then you say the club name and its account number . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend will agree that those questions must be answered and that we have to get to the very heart of the scandal to ensure that it should not happen again , not only in Leicestershire but elsewhere , and those responsible for the cover-up are made to realise what they have done and the subsequent effect it has had on numerous children . |
| 27 | The Opposition do not understand that we have to provide for the full life of the Trident system — for 30 years . |
| 28 | To find another animal with this ability we have to look outside the avian world to the largest land animal — the elephant . |
| 29 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 30 | ‘ Because it is so rare , we do n't really know what the outlook is , so we have to look on the bright side , ’ said Mrs Horby . |