Example sentences of "have to keep " in BNC.

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1 Not only did he have to keep wafting a smoke machine to create that distinctive curry house fug , and smoking cigarettes down to the level of the previous scene ; he also had to keep up a steady supply of fresh poppadums .
2 Gudok pointed out that such an exploit could not be repeated all over Russia , so staff on individual railway lines would have to keep their eyes skinned for military or criminal activity .
3 The controls are set to cook chips at 185°C and the temperature is displayed on the front of the suite which means the fryer does n't have to keep his eye on each pan , ’ says general manager Andrew Harding .
4 Local authorities , educational establishments and other landowners will have to keep their public land clear of litter , and citizens will be able to apply to the courts for a ‘ litter abatement order ’ to ensure they do so .
5 When large quantities of oil are released after the break-up of a tanker , for example , sea birds appear to be more visibly affected than the smooth-skinned dolphins , possibly because cetaceans can choose to swim away from oil slicks , and do not have to keep returning through slicks to nesting sites on shore .
6 To see whether they turn out to be brilliantly inventive , usefully practical or just plain daft , you 'll have to keep watching , not this space but that little square in your living room .
7 ‘ I 'd have to keep a promise . ’
8 ‘ Then I shall have to keep reminding him , ’ said Evelyn with gentle determination .
9 But part of the NCS programme is devoted to new materials , and Wood acknowledged that it would have to keep an eye open for new discoveries like the superconducting buckminsterfullerenes : ‘ synthetic chemists are almost certainly going to find new materials ’ .
10 If that happened , by God we 'd have to keep our heads down . ’
11 To do so you would have to keep careful pedigree records of caddises bred in captivity , and breeding them is difficult .
12 Especially at first , you may have to keep reminding the patient to sit upright and take the food to his mouth , rather than letting his face droop towards his plate .
13 Of course you do n't have to keep off land during the stalking season if you do n't want to , since trespass in Scotland is contained within the civil and not the criminal law .
14 This means everything is to hand and off the floor and she does n't have to keep going in and out of the stable while she gets her horse ready to ride .
15 What , after all , could be wrong with providing at least some good schools in the inner cities , to which parents would be committed and where pupils would have to keep their heads down and work , on pain of being thrown out ?
16 If it was any other manager , I would have to keep him informed , because in theory he is coordinating the whole process .
17 A phobia about birds , for example , may not sound so terrible — after all you do n't have to keep chickens or buy a budgie — but when you are terrified to leave your house ( or even go into your own garden ) in case a sparrow or a robin comes too dose , your life can become a total misery .
18 Chemists will have to keep as narrow a watch on these minor elements as our astronomers do on the minor planets , or we shall not know where we are ’ .
19 In order to bring about a deterioration in the patient 's condition with low potency remedies one would have to keep on repeating the wrong remedy many times and even then it is unlikely that much would happen unless the patient were particularly frail and weak , in which case they should be having constitutional treatment to boost their overall state and not ‘ first aid ’ treatment for the little bits that go wrong .
20 So up we 'd go and we 'd have to keep the crowd back and the object was to wait for Mary to come out for some more beer which was the pub across the road , and when she did , grab her .
21 The Council will also have to keep the curriculum under review and promote change where this is felt to be necessary .
22 Until then , the rest of us will just have to keep holding our noses .
23 It will also save radio time — controllers will not have to keep calling the cars .
24 They will also reduce our needs for mental energy , and the 21st century 's cognoscenti will take up mental jogging , using programs specially designed to exercise the mind … until then we 'll have to keep attending conferences on computer culture .
25 We 're going to get jobs , of course , but we may have to keep you waiting for ages before we can settle your account . ’
26 I tell you what , I 'll run in the next London Marathon , then I 'll have to keep fit . ’
27 Jennie explained that rhythm and co-ordination were very important and that Katharine would have to keep Benji collected .
28 All the test phials , reagents and other relevant equipment come with the test kit , although refills are available , so you do n't have to keep purchasing the entire kit every time .
29 We 'll have to keep a stirrup pump close by . ’
30 ‘ It tells me nothing about my children , and I should n't have to keep contacting the Social Work Department to find out how they are .
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