Example sentences of "they have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 2 | He said they had to allow the Japanese to retain their arms because they had not enough men to collect them . |
| 3 | Diane always tried to keep her weekends for spending with Jed , but because of the rain they had to spend the early part of the day in their own below-stairs lounge , watching the Saturday morning cartoons on television . |
| 4 | Sometimes they had to attend the fashionable church in Mayfair where Canon Broome 's brother-in-law was rector . |
| 5 | The tricky part would come when they had to leave the straight track and turn down through a gate and a field , but magic never worked if the thing you had to do was too easy . |
| 6 | For all their talk about the wisdom of the marketplace , the Thatcher government could not give up the paternalistic idea that they had to regulate the independent television companies , with the continuation of the Independent Broadcasting Authority in the guise of an Independent Television Commission . |
| 7 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 8 | The British found a role as recent emancipators in advising others , though they had to acknowledge the continued participation of British capital and goods in the slave trade and the possession of slaves by British functionaries abroad . |
| 9 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 10 | Gatting made the point that they had to win the final two games as after so much cricket they simply did not have the strength left for a third . |
| 11 | she had the two , the first one was n't put right , you know they had to get the exact one |
| 12 | They were not even given their wings and for the next two years , on the ‘ last in last out ’ principle , they had to endure the insufferable tedium of waiting for demobilisation . |
| 13 | With François Mitterrand 's re-election for a second seven-year term in 1988 , they had to face the demoralising prospect of being out of power for 14 years . |
| 14 | Next they had to face the assembled school and were given three cheers . |
| 15 | The Ndorrobo were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game , something a Masai would never do . |
| 16 | They had to dismantle the entire table at the Highwayman pub in Berwick , Northumbria , to free him . |
| 17 | They have to do the tedious promotional work , the dodgy TV shows in Belgium and the interviews at American radio stations where no one knows who they are . |
| 18 | They have to guide the new voters in the exercise of the franchise ; to guide them quietly , and without saying what they are doing , but still to guide them . |
| 19 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 20 | as if the park wardens and scientists do not have enough problems already , they have to watch the ecological implications of their control programmes . |
| 21 | All they have to offer the jobless are dead-end training schemes and cuts in training budgets . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ What people are concerned about is that , if they train certifieds or AATs , they do n't have to cope with the bureaucracy , they do n't have to be formal training offices and so they do n't have to be quite so concerned that they have to provide the right sort of additional courses for people to attend to back up their exams . |
| 23 | They have to run the beastly place and do all the work . ’ |
| 24 | Future generations in both the North and the South will not forgive our generation if they have to bear the future cost . |
| 25 | They have to learn the dominant language , Mandarin , and adopt many of the cultural values of the majority Han Chinese in order to make progress in education . |
| 26 | The quality buildings will be let — Broadgate is now 95 per cent leased — but slowly developers will realise they have to convert the bad space which I can only say is a lot of classified DIY . ’ |
| 27 | Since the awareness from which we recoil is constantly being forced on us by pain or misfortune , no doubt many or most people can take every opportunity they have to avoid the unpleasant without being in any danger of becoming more aware of the bright side than the dark . |
| 28 | Pensioners will believe that they have to pay the full amount unless they query it with their local authority or unless the authority has a list . |
| 29 | As members of one of the world 's elite fighting forces , they have to gain the coveted green beret and undergo the same rigorous selection and training exercises as all other Royal Marines . |
| 30 | But first they have to solve the Irish problem , see off the Dutch , and remember how Egypt looked to an Englishman before Suez . |