Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [pers pn] have [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I have to get a bus at eight o'clock so I have to leave the house at twenty to eight .
2 It was an arrangement we had I , I would n't phone in cos you have to wait three weeks for your wages if I phone in .
3 Programs are expensive , and even more so if you have to keep altering them .
4 Another point to remember is that flowers will wilt badly , or even die , if they are left sitting in a hot car or office all day , so if you have to buy them hours before they will be pressed , put them in plenty of water as soon as possible or , better still , buy them on your way home and then they can be pressed fairly quickly .
5 The Spastics Society survey shows that many dislike this form of voting , especially if they have to get their form signed by a doctor .
6 It may not be easy as the race gets closer , especially if you have to travel and stay overnight .
7 But installing a kitchen can be expensive — especially if you have to correct mistakes .
8 Well I think so cos I have to write in the book , I have to put myself !
9 State provision is important for many elderly people , not only because they have to rely on a retirement or supplementary pension in the absence of income from employment or from an occupational pension , but also because they need the health and social services provided by the welfare state .
10 I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law .
11 The idea of a crossroads is a difficult concept to pin down because we have to distinguish between different types of changes .
12 Erm , the trouble is , if you do n't know the vocabulary it 's very hard to dictate and write down because you have to keep stopping and asking them to spell things .
13 So while we have to discharge our responsibilities and , and , and show how these targets are achievable , we also are quite right to indicate our feelings about in , in , in the manner the Director 's er , expressed .
14 Going on again on the tenant farmers , I actually think that er we are very good landlords and I think our our our tenants would rather us keep us as landlords than the private sector , in actual fact we will have no doubt a debate quite soon on that issue when the government makes us sell off all areas of of er th our interests and that one , I will tell you this , I think that some of the members all sides of the fence every side of the fence , have been passionately behind the tenants , if if they 're gon na be sold off by now they 'd have been sold off , but I think it wo n't be far long before we have to take education first , social services first , the elderly before er your side with your government to come forward and say to us we do n't want you interfering with anything like that and being bold business , get rid of , but that 's another debate that will come up later on .
15 If they do , it may not be long before we have to pay the price .
16 ‘ My family has always helped me out , but it 's getting hard , especially as I have to give up work for four months . ’
17 This messes up our whole routine , especially when we have to make numerous trips to the pigeon holes to see if the mail has arrived , not to mention putting the post room in a turmoil .
18 It is also very preparation for climbing , since balance and swing are crucial , especially when you have to swing up six feet and balance on a ledge no wider than a fingernail … . and as for amateur dramatics — you should see some of our training sessions !
19 That is a very short time , especially when you have to travel all that way . ’
20 Especially when you have to have a bit of salad cream on
21 You 're not often disorganised so when you have to backtrack or retrace your steps to do or get something you 've forgotten you wo n't be best pleased .
22 So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all .
23 Oh right so you have to travel in ?
24 Right so you have to expand it .
25 You should check the rushes , bushes and tree branches , if any , behind you and establish just where you have to stand to cast without snagging when you lay the rod back .
26 Then erm you just so you have to make sure you keep .
27 My God , not if I have to kill you to keep you in this bedroom ! ’
28 Not if I have to drag her through every court in the land …
29 Reckon I 'm coming to well I ca n't come to that detention anyway cos I have to go to West Side Story tonight .
30 As we have seen already when we have to cope with a large number of losses in a short time , it becomes much harder to deal with the grief that we feel .
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