Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 2 | And what sort of things might we have to encounter on the road ? ’ |
| 3 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 4 | ‘ This declaration is not a blind bit of good to the workers who have to take over the jobs of those who have emigrated , ’ and ‘ Why do we have to wait till the next central committee meeting ? ’ were other grumbles . |
| 5 | Do we have to paint underneath the side ? |
| 6 | The next day we had to report to the huge , ugly , frightening , hideous abattoir man who , in case you did n't know , lives , actually lives three streets away from us ! |
| 7 | We had a 3.15 PM start , and we 'd only played one hole when the end of the world looked as though it had come and we had to shelter in the R&A tent . |
| 8 | We worked with two pens in the one hand , one for black ink and one for red , and at each weather station we had to draw in the symbols for wind speed and direction , barometric pressure , temperature , cloud type , amount and height , and precipitation , all in black , and the wet bulb temperature and dew point in red . |
| 9 | We had to sit in the waiting room with everyone else . |
| 10 | We had to sit in the shade out the road a bit |
| 11 | Every instinct and all the forces in political democracy were against the surrender of sovereignty , but we had to move down the road towards accepting it . |
| 12 | We had to move into the capital afterwards , because we feared they would come back to look for my husband and I began to suffer from my nerves , thinking about all I had seen.They killed my husband in the end , in 1982 . |
| 13 | It was long enough to need a semaphore to signal from one end to the other , dark enough so you would never have seen the flags , and so narrow we had to squeeze past the single bed by the door to reach the open land before the next one . |
| 14 | When we were four and five we had to sleep in the afternoons on long mats made of shiny grass that left ribbing marks on our skin . |
| 15 | except for odd occasions in the winter when we had to go into the gym and dance with the birds ! ’ |
| 16 | By and large , the war passed us by in Baldersdale , although we had to go through the business of putting black-out curtains at all the windows , even though all the light we had was from oil lamps . |
| 17 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |
| 18 | So we had to go to the park where we had met under the protective shade of a friendly tree . |
| 19 | Then we had to go to the banks and change our covenants , which were based on TI 's net tangible assets , which in turn were damaged by the write-off . |
| 20 | That 's when the sirens went and we had to go to the shelter . |
| 21 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 22 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 23 | We had to go from the School to the School for two years and back to the School again , and er finally we 'd go to the Academy . |
| 24 | Annoyingly , youngsters were playing games in the lifts , and we had to resort to the stairs . |
| 25 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 26 | We had to take our own meals at all times , even when we had cups of tea we had to take to the station our own tea , sugar and milk , but there was always a large kettle during the winter months on a coal fire , and during the summer months on a gas ring . |
| 27 | we had , we had to swim to the bottom and do like a handstand |
| 28 | He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island . |
| 29 | We used to call it higher education , and erm so we had to deal with the , the Lowestoft Grammar School in the same way as we did with the other schools and also with the erm Technical Institute which was at Lowestoft , that was the only erm purpose-built erm centre for further education in the , in the county at that time . |
| 30 | We had to flee to the church refuge here . |