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 . |