Example sentences of "you have [to-vb] [art] [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 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | Oh why you 're having to speak , you having to have the other people talking to each other , the people who speak to you |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Why do you have to put the bloody age down ? |
| 7 | Do you have to state the obvious ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did you have to take a whole summer ? ’ she demanded angrily . |
| 9 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 10 | Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do . |
| 11 | Did you have to have a different pinny every day then ? |
| 12 | Did you have to sign the Official Secrets Act ? |
| 13 | Your mother fed the clothes into the rollers and you had to turn the old mangle . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If you wanted to take them off or even go to the lavatory , you had to undo a complicated buttoned flap at the front . |
| 16 | If you had to give a phoney address , could n't you at least have picked something that did n't have a remote basis in reality ? |
| 17 | ( You had to watch the Great Killer 's eyes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Finally , remember that you had to put a considerable amount of effort into learning the skills that you have today . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So you had to find the square root of by ar either arithmetic by |
| 24 | You had to throw the malted barley up against the screen . |
| 25 | You had to produce the right club , and if you made a mistake it was the end of you . |
| 26 | Er if , if you , if you had , you had to dig a little hole in , in the , in the , by the wall on the , on the pavement like that to hold about sixty four marbles say , and you 'd start off and say , give or give or take give or take as a lawyer , I used to have four marbles , and whoever was taken that was a lawyer of four marbles , I do n't know why . |
| 27 | But , even if you were , you had to buy the whole manifesto . |
| 28 | You had to make a tiny hole to push it through — I 've seen men reported for using them — making a hole in their uniform . |
| 29 | To get there you had to pass an unsteady table of jewellery and climb a flight of worn-lipped , stone steps to the second floor . |
| 30 | Well I thought you had to get a certain amount |