Example sentences of "have [to-vb] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After discussing what led a girl to become a prostitute they then set up a series of dramas showing some of the stresses ( including poverty ) a fictitious character had had to face in her early life .
2 You do n't have to go in your own transport .
3 ‘ Now listen here , you , I do n't know what you 're up to , but I do n't have to sit in my own house and … ’
4 Most of them will have to play in our remaining games .
5 But then again , when I was a a small boy the university professors that were interested in me told my father I 'd do what I would have to do in my mid-forties .
6 If your pupilmaster is now above doing the humbler type of work ( in the county court or before magistrates ) with which you will have to start in your own practice , he will arrange for you to accompany more junior members of chambers to these lower courts .
7 She says : ‘ As a patient , you do n't have to believe in anything spiritual to reap the benefits .
8 They accepted — and ultimately so did she — that they would have to retreat in their domestic fight for secularism if they were to keep alive the hope of making peace with the Arabs .
9 We 'll all have to live in their damned council houses . ’
10 He said : ‘ Keith Fletcher and Graham Gooch are both members of the TCCB 's cricket committee and we shall listen carefully to whatever they might have to say in their end-of-tour reports .
11 The women are glad not to have to labour in their sweltering , smoke-filled little pole-and-dagga houses .
12 We each had to sit in our own chair .
13 ‘ A couple of years ago we realised we had to invest in our own training programme , ’ said Ben Stocks , UK general manager and group marketing manager for the business , part of Courtaulds Coatings .
14 The days on Capitol Hill when she had to paint in her limited spare time seem far off now .
15 She also had to work in her spare time to help pay for her studies .
16 I just had to put in my ten pence , dial without thinking and see what happened .
17 Toraja warriors had to die in their own " Rante " , or village circle , if their souls were successfully to return to the stars .
18 Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it
19 They would say whatever it was they had to say in their own time .
20 It must have been a considerable advantage when faced with the numerous moves the children had to make in their formative years .
21 Such as a function you have to attend in your professional capacity ?
22 Always remember that fish have to swim in their own ‘ loo ’ .
23 If you say , ‘ Well , of course , yes , I can easily explain that , but basically we 'll transfer the the , the handling of the enquiry to A Department , which of course has responsibility to B , but B ca n't do that without C , ’ you have to know in your own organization that that 's the way the procedure works , but it will mean nothing to the listener .
24 If , as is all too common , Scots lawyers have to apply in their own system a document imperfectly adapted to their own familiar terms , such as is the RICS scale in this particular , it may be of some advantage to know what ‘ rent reserved ’ means , at least in the country in which it originated .
25 It is all down to what we have to do in our coming matches .
26 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
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