Example sentences of "to have [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We used to have to promise to do things to get elected , and now we have to promise not to . ’ |
| 2 | It is infuriating to have to mow an extra half width , or to find that you can not turn a corner without complicated manoeuvres . |
| 3 | It is almost certain that you are going to have to treat your tank with a copper-based remedy such as Cuprazin . |
| 4 | But to do so , you are going to have to treat yourself , your eating habits , and the question of weight loss quite seriously . |
| 5 | With a capital investment fund , and yet here you are trying to have to borrow to be able to manage next year . |
| 6 | So , we 're going to have to borrow one from the , and then put a minus one , put that one there , leaves five , and minus one , minus two , leaves , ca n't do that anyway , so you 're going to have to borrow this one |
| 7 | So , we 're going to have to borrow one from the , and then put a minus one , put that one there , leaves five , and minus one , minus two , leaves , ca n't do that anyway , so you 're going to have to borrow this one |
| 8 | And other costs , such as readers and having to buy books because you ca n't borrow them for long enough from libraries to get them recorded or brailled , er those sorts of things really are n't taken account of and you 're simply going to have to borrow money er to pay for your disability in effect . |
| 9 | It galled him to have to sit impotently in silence ; worse still , that it had been witnessed . |
| 10 | To have to sit in an office all day playing the same records — all of which are awful — over and over and over again — well , it 's not funny , is it ? |
| 11 | This was March — it was cold , windy , and altogether an unpleasant time of the year to have to sit in a car for long periods observing people 's activities , and how they lived their lives . |
| 12 | A total lack of musical skill combined with a total lack of imagination is a terrible thing to have to sit and listen to . |
| 13 | I mean , for a child to have to sit and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day — it 's totally out of order , you know . |
| 14 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 15 | To have to sit there and take his abuse was like being bound hand and foot to a torturer 's chair . |
| 16 | But to have to sit here and pretend interest in an endless parade of painted mannequins wearing bored looks and the ridiculous fashions he 'd already glimpsed in the huge sketches plastered on the wall as decorations — Nicolo shifted again . |
| 17 | So eventually you 're going to have to sit down with us and tell us how much you want . |
| 18 | He started to have to attend meetings in London . |
| 19 | And it looks like I 'm going to have to attend to that jockey girl . ’ |
| 20 | You used to have to rub all your clothes and on this rub board or get a little brush and and scrub the s collar and your cuffs and then in the salt water and get all them in and then you used to have to ponch them with a ponch or a dolly peg , what used to go round like that you see . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it should be rare to have to draft a common report from scratch . |
| 22 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 23 | It looked smug , Henry thought , about the fact that he was going to have to drive it again . |
| 24 | Chris was a learner driver at this time , and he used to drive me to hospital ; driving practice for him , but a great relief for me not to have to drive myself . |
| 25 | See there were n't no lorries to get them about we used to have to drive . |
| 26 | It 's nice to know that the Man Utd fans still feel so inadequate as to have to post things to the Leeds newsgroup . |
| 27 | Yonge was sufficiently tainted to have to fall back on his brother-in-law 's , Richard Duke 's , borough of Ashburton . |
| 28 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 29 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 30 | He was to have to wait until 1987 when , amid great grey curtains of mist and murk , he played one of the greatest of championship courses , Muirfield , by parring every hole in the last round . |