Example sentences of "[adv] have [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Godolphin only had to pick up the encyclopaedia and he was ready to put on his boots and set off for the Dominions again . |
| 2 | That road led only to self-destruction — she should know that better than anyone … only had to conjure up the sad , embittered look in her mother 's hazel eyes to realise the depths of pain such an entanglement could cause . |
| 3 | You only had to pay back the five per cent minimum each month . |
| 4 | You only have to snip out the listings in the local paper on Saturday , a column filled with auctions , sales , markets and fairs in an area that stretches from Bath to Frome , Shepton Mallet , Devizes and Wells . |
| 5 | If any of my staff or myself can be of help with a future motoring need , you only have to pick up the phone or call in and see us and we will ensure your total satisfaction . |
| 6 | I only have to switch on the news to hear things a whole lot crazier than that . ’ |
| 7 | However , she just has to pick up the phone and a friendly voice at The Wool Shop is always there to help . |
| 8 | As it turned out , George had not had to stir up the matter of Miss Tuckey himself . |
| 9 | Of late , my generation has perforce had to count up the debit column of all those mistakes , and in so doing has forgotten the benefits . |
| 10 | Perhaps we do not have to throw away the wealth of old traditions before we can enjoy the attractions of modern society and maybe new technology can not be appreciated unless it is weighed against the security and apparent solidarity of the past . ’ |
| 11 | Listing the institutions which had contributed to the lamentable performance of ‘ UK plc ’ , Morgan went on to lambast Oxford University ( ‘ dons caught in a timewarp ’ ) , the Church of England ( ‘ the enterprise culture is an alien concept to the established Church ’ ) , and Whitehall ( ‘ our vast body of state employees who do not have to worry where the next pay cheque is coming from ’ ) . |
| 12 | Never mind we 'll just have to stay here the night . |
| 13 | Business cards also serve the function of not having to memorise instantaneously the names and positions of one 's business counterparts and they provide a record for future reference . |
| 14 | Er , I do n't physically have to type out the labels , but I have physically have to be in the office , to initiate the computer sorts , because under something called personal job insurance scheme , I 've layered the sort of routine under a lot of security codes and I 'm only , the only person who knows where they are . |
| 15 | I no longer had to push away the picture of Saad laid out on the floor , or banish from my imagination the sound of his huge voice , louder than the roaring of the wind , dumb for ever . |
| 16 | The SI thought you just had to show how the nightmare worked and everyone would wake up . |
| 17 | We just have to iron out the contract details . |
| 18 | You just have to list out the erm adverts , position , advertiser , estate agent , town . |
| 19 | Johnny plans to work the climb this summer ; he has already managed all the moves but still has to piece together the sequences . |
| 20 | ‘ Someone always has to pick up the bill . ’ |
| 21 | The data studied in discourse analysis is always a fragment of discourse and the discourse analyst always has to decide where the fragment begins and ends . |
| 22 | In a quantum theory of gravity , as we saw in the last chapter , in order to specify the state of the universe one would still have to say how the possible histories of the universe would behave at the boundary of space-time in the past . |
| 23 | Unless the contract is frustrated , the seller will still have to carry out the contract and if he delivers goods which do not comply with it , he will be in breach of contract . |
| 24 | Thorfinn had said , ‘ To get to Dunkeld … to get to anywhere that matters , he would still have to sail up the Tay or march north by the Forth crossing . |
| 25 | She still had to shake out the sofa cushions . |
| 26 | The three still have to sort out the thorny question of who will run the centre and where it will be . |
| 27 | We still have to work out the terms of my contract . |
| 28 | David Sole , Scotland 's captain , has also had to dig out the speech-making file following the midweek injury in Sydney to Nick Farr-Jones , Australia 's World Cup leader , who was to have headed this campaign which coaches Ian McGeechan and Bob Templeton hope will compound New Zealand 's problems . |
| 29 | The ITA was simultaneously having to work out the details of its own role ; formulate rules that met the legislation 's requirements for quality , balance and so on , some of which — about imported American programmes , say — would affect the companies ' finances ; and ensure both that there was proper competition for the franchises , yet that the operation did not collapse through mismanagement or financial miscalculation . |
| 30 | ICI says it may now have to close down the business . |