Example sentences of "they have [verb] [conj] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And did they have to stop and change the horses ? |
| 2 | ‘ Will they have to come and see me ? ’ |
| 3 | Of course it was right : this poor owd cow , she ran right across these fields there , what they call Brookey 's Wood ; and they had to go and fetch her . |
| 4 | Aye , Temple was but it , it was a good job because we had no oranges and they had to go and break in . |
| 5 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 6 | He could n't bear to wait another day , but then the letter finished in a scrawl , messy and rushed , because , I suppose , they had to go and capture some hill or bit of wood . |
| 7 | They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight . |
| 8 | They had to go and possess it . |
| 9 | They had to go and collect the mails . |
| 10 | . They had to go and pick bags of stuff up . |
| 11 | People stood shoulder to shoulder , they had to go and fight together . |
| 12 | Then they had to go and pump water for the stock . |
| 13 | They had to dismount and force their way through , past the Conduit and the Tun and up a small alleyway which led into the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
| 14 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 15 | As time passed , scientists felt they had to organize and categorize the growing number of different phenotypes and their evolving descendants . |
| 16 | Usually they cleared underbrush and weeds from the rubber groves from one o'clock until sunset , but the new quotas ordered by Duclos that morning meant they had to tap and collect from more than a hundred extra trees through the hot afternoon although their energies were largely spent . |
| 17 | He went on , more to her father now than to her , in his light drawling voice she had to listen to in church every Sunday of her life telling them all what was what because he had the God-given power to do so and they had to listen and obey . |
| 18 | Corridors that sloped down more and more steeply , so that they had to sit and shuffle down the last few metres . |
| 19 | They had to organise and fight . |
| 20 | They had to find and dig or mine the iron ore . |
| 21 | To solve their problem , they had to locate and use an 0.5. map in the library ; decide what form of transport they would use ; locate and use a B.R. map to find the nearest station ; and find the name of the nearest town likely to have a bus station . |
| 22 | Indeed they have to publish or perish ( ‘ Sure he was a great teacher , but what did he publish ? ’ ) |
| 23 | In addition , the relatively small number of alternative dwellings available to families who have to live in specific rural locations may mean that they have to take and retain whatever dwelling is available , whether or not it is appropriate to their needs . |
| 24 | They have to re-apply and pay , by competitive tender , for franchises which they have held for many years . |
| 25 | The various headings in that pro forma remind justices and their clerks of the essential matters they have to decide and provide a logical pattern for the statement of findings and reasons . |
| 26 | They have to plan and act quickly to prevent any spread to other animals or humans . |
| 27 | It is when the physical phenomenon of soil erosion affects people so that they have to respond and adapt their mode of life that it becomes also a social phenomenon . |
| 28 | They 're not a target of the war-ing factions , but they have to duck and dive to avoid the cross fire . |
| 29 | They have to heave and sweat their great stone to the top of the mountain , and plant it firmly on the summit . |
| 30 | The obvious comparison is with housework : if women want to eat and live in pleasant surroundings they have to cook and clean . |