Example sentences of "you have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it saved you hav it saved you having to do the preliminary thing of saying dear whoever you are |
| 2 | I do n't envy you having to tell the dear lady that she 'll have to spend the rest of her holiday with her wrist in plaster ! ’ |
| 3 | Oh why you 're having to speak , you having to have the other people talking to each other , the people who speak to you |
| 4 | but you ca n't you ca n't dip into modules of that can you do n't you have to do the whole thing ? |
| 5 | Why do you have to put the bloody age down ? |
| 6 | Do you have to state the obvious ? |
| 7 | Did you have to sign the Official Secrets Act ? |
| 8 | Your mother fed the clothes into the rollers and you had to turn the old mangle . |
| 9 | Every time the car went round a corner you had to turn the whole radio round to face a different way That was the only way you could get half-decent reception . |
| 10 | ( You had to watch the Great Killer 's eyes . |
| 11 | To reach his new apartment you had to use the old tradesmen 's entrance : past the service elevator , down four flights of stairs , along a corridor with a linoleum floor . |
| 12 | And keep it warm and then er if you had er Then you had the chickens to you had to set the clucking hens and and bring out as many chickens as you could . |
| 13 | So it was quite a simple job and of course , as yard inspector at Street , my job was to see that the s platforms were always When one train left you had to put the other train in to get the shunters to shunt another train into the empty platform you see , for the next the next shunt and that and if a train came in from Carstairs you see , you seen that the pilot and phoned the signalman , let the pilot into number five dock . |
| 14 | So you had to find the square root of by ar either arithmetic by |
| 15 | You had to throw the malted barley up against the screen . |
| 16 | You had to produce the right club , and if you made a mistake it was the end of you . |
| 17 | But , even if you were , you had to buy the whole manifesto . |
| 18 | No but , what the bloke had one half and you had to have the other half . |
| 19 | I always knew that you had to have the important artists around too . |
| 20 | Because you had to have the stern anchor to keep the buckets off the face of what you was dredging cos if you did n't your dredge 'd go ahead too much and er you had big problems there and you would n't be able to dredge . |
| 21 | But the idea that you have to see the original film is misplaced and outmoded . |
| 22 | One could then make a multiple stimulus-response drill where two stimuli are given each time , and you have to choose the appropriate verb form . |
| 23 | You have to choose the correct heights to go with the named bases . |
| 24 | ‘ You have to choose the correct mill to begin with and work very closely with them as a partner , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Budhoo also explains why the IMF never suggests cuts to defence , police or public control measures instead of to basic services and subsidies for the poor : ‘ It 's one thing to push around countries and say , OK you have to treat the poor that way ’ ’ . |
| 26 | You have to do the right things . ’ |
| 27 | Instead , you have to open the separate chart-making program and paste , or link , data from your spreadsheet into this program — time-consuming to say the least . |
| 28 | That is , you have to imitate the main carriage knitting at Main Tension plus 4 . |
| 29 | You have to go the scenic route and learn things that way . ’ |
| 30 | You have to risk the cracking and the warping . |