Example sentences of "n't have [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At least she had n't had to wait over the lunch-hour .
2 We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his .
3 You wo n't have to live with the car that draws attention to itself with a banshee wail every time you floor it in 2nd .
4 We do n't have to live by the sweat of our brow .
5 I do n't have to go on the underpass do I ?
6 So they do n't have to go to an advertising agency or a graphics designer to have it all drawn up we 'll do that for them .
7 ‘ We do n't have to go to the Oyster Bar . ’
8 I was still there , I was in er it was classed as a reserved occupation , so I did n't have to go to the war .
9 ‘ I wish I did n't have to go to the party .
10 Mind , I stayed at the house and did n't have to go to the graveside , but I can still see the procession of people .
11 You do n't have to go to the Refuge !
12 So the revenue themselves do er a really good information service and if you go into any tax office , you do n't have to go to the counter , there 's often a queue or you get this little card system which , number system you 're , you 're next .
13 But you do n't have to go to the farm in person : good butchers all over the country will be selling Derek 's bronze birds — call the number below to find out whether there is a stockist in your area .
14 You do n't have to go into the theatre for so long I think .
15 You do n't have to go into the country to have a relaxing holiday
16 She did n't have to go through the debutante stage .
17 Carmen , 22 , a part-time waitress , added : ‘ I 'm relieved we did n't have to go through the anguish that these other parents must be enduring .
18 So it , then I had erm , I brought up my husband 's sister 's daughter from when she was fourteen , I brought her oh , yes fourteen , I brought her up for nine years and br brought her up as my own daughter like because she got , got to be put away in a home and I did n't want her to have to go into a home so I , I brought her up you know we brought her up and sort of as , I lost my little girl she was with me like , see and she still comes to me like , she still calls but she calls me mum , mother like now , ha , you know all those years I had her , she 's married and her family 's grown up now and er she 's got one daughter left , left at home who 's just got engaged that 's Mrs from er she lives , yes so , so that was my hubby 's er sister 's daughter she only had the one daughter and two brothers , but she , the brothers she do n't hear nothing of them they just , you know they were gon na put her in a home , but we took her so she did n't have to go in a home , I did n't want her to have to go in a home
19 No , it 's just that erm he feels comfortable and does n't have to put on a show
20 The Open University 's ( address on page 148 ) pre-retirement course book lists some of the good as well as the bad feelings you can have about being alone : ‘ I feel I do n't have to put on an act ’ , ‘ I feel really me ’ , ‘ I feel relaxed ’ are some of the items on the list .
21 no the English news only comes on at half past ten at night and then you 'll get what they wanted to hear , so you do n't have to listen to the World Service
22 We do n't have to talk about the single because that 's off the album … do n't have to talk about the tour .
23 We do n't have to talk about the single because that 's off the album … do n't have to talk about the tour .
24 You do n't have to talk into the microphone .
25 You do n't have to talk like a baby !
26 So there is no possibility of knitting faster than the machine is scanning and you do n't have to pause at the end of a pattern repeat .
27 did you ever have a desire of er a wall bracket where you did n't have to chase in the flex that it actually ran up from er a socket in the wall ?
28 We will review the decision on an annual basis as our video list grows — maybe producing a series of loop tapes each one covering a particular sector of the market so that customers interested in adult/business English videos do n't have to sit through a section on ‘ watch with mother ’ levels .
29 Does not he have a powerful point when he says : ’ The new system is run by accountants who do n't have to sit across the table from the patient and say I can not treat you' ’ until the new financial year ?
30 Our relationship does n't have to do with a cause , Father Tom ; it 's based on fear and guilt and power — like all true relationships .
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