Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] have [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used sometimes to have to make an effort to be cheerful , but I have never had to restrain myself from bursting into violence and anger … |
| 2 | Paragraph three point seven describe in some detail with a figure of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds will become available in nine nineteen ninety three ninety four , when the rules change on the financing of structural maintenance on Principal Road , this sum would be enough to cover the two hundred and thirty thousand pound short that we mentioned previously has to cover the loan charges to sustain the same level of capital programme on schemes not aided by transport supplementary branch in nineteen ninety three four , as is currently being spent in this year . |
| 3 | A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem . |
| 4 | She 'd always had to have an imaginary life simultaneously , as the real one was inadequate . |
| 5 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 6 | They , by contrast , did not have to return the money they had received in compensation from the Republic . |
| 7 | She said people did not have to view the show if they were likely to find it offensive and while she found some photographs disturbing they should still be shown so people could form their own opinions . |
| 8 | Although the liquidators did not have to release the transcripts , this could result in an injustice to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 9 | Darwin did not have to overthrow a coherent and worked-out theory ; he had to persuade contemporaries that hypothesizing about origins was worthwhile . |
| 10 | The three birds in the ‘ opened ’ treatment that drunk the milk in the training session did not have to open the container . |
| 11 | Having been involved in such proceedings since the Twenties he was now in fact finding them " a bit tedious " , and " Mr Eliot 's list " was invented for a section of the agenda so that he did not have to attend the entire meeting . |
| 12 | One did not have to oppose the war to oppose its consequences ; and there was nothing in the least unpatriotic about the demands for ‘ equality of sacrifice ’ . |
| 13 | With 49.45 per cent of the vote , Herenton fell just short of an actual plurality , but did not have to undergo a runoff election as required in the past . |
| 14 | and because the clinics were not attached to the main hospitals , there was no feedback from other disciplines in medicine , and , furthermore , the doctors working in the clinics did not have to undergo the vigorous selection procedures that were usual for hospital posts . |
| 15 | He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights . |
| 16 | As Professor Landes has pointed out , the tolerance of non-factory employers depended on the fact that they did not have to take the running or fixed costs of machinery into account . |
| 17 | The Appeal Court today ruled that the five-year term should remain , but that he did not have to serve the extra three months . |
| 18 | Similarly , when they exchanged the names of their schools , she found herself immensely relieved when he declared that he was at Winchester , for she had heard of Winchester , she knew something about Winchester , she did not have to feign a non-existent knowledge of Winchester . |
| 19 | Accordingly , such protagonists as Gower did not have to undertake a ‘ voyage of discovery ’ to acquire the appropriate tool of their trade . |
| 20 | In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him . |
| 21 | It would save her poor feet if she did not have to mount the stairs to the attic . |
| 22 | He had the good grace to apologise afterwards and I also expressed my gratitude that I did not have to wait an hour or so until the training was finished before I could obtain his team and get busy . |
| 23 | They did not have to pay the usual £20 a tablet and both took one . |
| 24 | She concentrated on this problem so that she did not have to imagine the people themselves . |
| 25 | A choice between debt and equity was made on the assumption that this choice did not have to stand the test of time . |
| 26 | In Breen v. Amalgamated Engineering Union a majority of the Court of Appeal held that a disciplinary committee of a trade union did not have to tell a shop steward why they had refused to endorse his election , and in McInnes v. Onslow-Fane it was held that the council of the Boxing Board of Control did not have to give an applicant for a manager 's licence an outline of their objections to him . |
| 27 | It did not have to have a name . |
| 28 | For a specimen of Muscovite of this shape Orowan found that the tensile strength was about 460,000 p.s.i. , that is to say nearly twenty times as strong as a specimen in which the cracks did not have to cross the planes of weakness . |
| 29 | Ironically , this was a source of strength for the dynasty because , unlike its English counterpart , it did not have to face the potential opposition a corporate body of the great magnates could provide . |
| 30 | Since central government had always paid for new building , local districts and services did not have to face the cost of using buildings and capital , and hence tended to waste space and capital assets . |