Example sentences of "n't have [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Even so , without his father 's family connection he would n't have scraped through the entrance exam .
3 I would n't have stopped in the job I was in .
4 ‘ I 'll bet he could n't have survived with the rest of us .
5 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 .
6 We do n't have to live by the sweat of our brow .
7 That book is all about the idea that the world is divided into the ordinary and the extraordinary , and that the extraordinary should n't have to live by the dictates of the mediocre majority .
8 We should n't have met at the apartment .
9 I do n't have to go on the underpass do I ?
10 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 .
11 ‘ We do n't have to go to the Oyster Bar . ’
12 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 .
13 This means you wo n't have to go to the police after all . ’
14 ‘ I wish I did n't have to go to the party .
15 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 .
16 You do n't have to go to the Refuge !
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 You do n't have to go into the theatre for so long I think .
20 You do n't have to go into the country to have a relaxing holiday
21 You do n't have to go over the arguments , I 've heard that .
22 Erm , and you know , let's face it , I did n't have to go through the circumstances that they went through in the war , and there therefore , who who am I to judge
23 She did n't have to go through the debutante stage .
24 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 .
25 ‘ Biff said you do n't have to go under the machines any more . ’
26 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
27 And then you would n't have to go round the fields doing the sheaves ?
28 No , it 's just that erm he feels comfortable and does n't have to put on a show
29 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 .
30 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
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