Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why do we have to go to Glastonbury ? ’ |
| 2 | Lasting impressions so far : the sun ( miraculously ) shining on the slopes of Dalwhinnie , far in the north , on the first leg of the journey ; stumbling across Drew from the World Cup holiday in a motorway café somewhere in England in the middle of the night ; breakfast and mineral water with Claire ( oh , it was good to see her ) in an Italian cafe near London Victoria ; people throwing up all over the joint on the Seacat crossing to Boulogne ( and me staggering about , legs way out of control , on the deck , getting soaked by the spray , saltwater taste in the mouth , and a rainbow arcing on top of the water behind the catamaran ) ; complaining English and American tourist ( ‘ It 's ridiculous that we have to go through customs — why do we have to go through customs anyway ? … ) ; terrible fatigue on the train to Paris , and temperamental French men shouting and swearing at each other in the aisle ; relief at finding Angela 's flat in Paris ; difficult negotiation of the very narrow stairwell , finally finding her way at the top on the 6th floor ; food , and wine , and a shower , and a bed-settee for the night ; Japanese tourists at Notre Dame , and a man announcing his state of poverty and homelessness on the Métro — ‘ ‘ . |
| 3 | So when we talk of galaxies , do we have to think of forces , and not curved space ? ’ |
| 4 | So no longer do we have to struggle with Computer Co-ordination Section when the phone rings and we rush to answer it grabbing pen and paper . |
| 5 | My wife was working for Cossors the electronic company and they moved to Harlow and er , it , in order for her to retain her job , we had to move to Harlow as well . |
| 6 | We had to move from Renishaw Road to a smaller house in Thorne Road at the other end of Nottingham , a move dictated by financial considerations , but which in a way pleased Mother as it helped to distance her from her old set of friends . |
| 7 | Apart from the pouring rain , we had to contend with mist — luckily we were on a clear path . |
| 8 | Then the show ended and we had to return to America and I thought that was that — good friends , really talented , I 'd grown to really like David 's music . |
| 9 | That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department . |
| 10 | It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living . |
| 11 | We in the borough , we dare not be rough because we had to remain in Ipswich after the strike was over . |
| 12 | In the senior school we had to go into school Saturday morning anyway ! |
| 13 | We had to go to school for we were young . |
| 14 | And we had to go to France then . |
| 15 | If we had to go to France , that would create other questions which may or may not be quite as acceptable to some of the hon. Friends of the Member for Ruislip-Northwood ( Mr. Wilkinson ) , whose suspicion of things European have been evidenced — Not necessarily the Conservative Members who are present , but other Tory Members probably would not be quite so keen on — as they would see it — mortgaging their nuclear future to the French . |
| 16 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 17 | For this escapade we had to go to Birmingham for the weekend . |
| 18 | We had to go to Thetford for the judging , and although we were quite good for a school of Debenham 's size . |
| 19 | So we had to go to pictures and we had to have a few or whatever . |
| 20 | A quarter of a mile , and plenty of stops later , I was hauled out of the water by my dripping father , who reminded me we had to go to Kirton , where I was playing football . |
| 21 | We had to go to classes as well . |
| 22 | yo you know if we had problems we 'd each talk to them and we had of course , we had , we formed a resident association and we took our problems to the resident 's association and and we wo , you know , if we had problems which could be ironed out the man , general manager of the development corporation , Mr would come and listen to our complaints and we seemed , you know , we we got along very very well really for such a small place with nothing because the only shopping facilities were in the old town or we had to go to Epping or Bishop 's Stortford you see ? |
| 23 | We were afraid , but we had to go on shore . |
| 24 | Anyway , it was a bit weird cos we had to go with parties cos they 're all they 're all black and they 're all about six and a half feet tall you know ! |
| 25 | That shop that we went in when we had to go down stairs . |
| 26 | And we had to go in N R E fe fatigues . |
| 27 | He said we had to pray in church , not out in the woods . |
| 28 | We had to commute for miles — never saw Caroline . |
| 29 | If we had to choose between radiocarbon and TL dating , then we would have to take into account that radiocarbon is used for organic materials and has an upper age limit of about forty thousand years , whereas TL is applied to inorganic samples and can be used beyond the range of radiocarbon . |
| 30 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’ |