Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Apart from the pouring rain , we had to contend with mist — luckily we were on a clear path .
3 That were just the temporary passes for the motorway that we had to return to department .
4 It is as though we had to talk in order to reassure ourselves that we were living .
5 In the senior school we had to go into school Saturday morning anyway !
6 We had to go to school for we were young .
7 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 .
8 We were afraid , but we had to go on shore .
9 He said we had to pray in church , not out in the woods .
10 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 .
11 A police spokesman said : ‘ We had to leave at speed because emotions were running so high . ’
12 So , sadly , we had to leave for Siren last November .
13 Tonight , we had to put in order
14 Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar .
15 As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries .
16 The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas .
17 ‘ They found us everywhere so we had to stay under water nearly twenty-three hours a day , and the air was so bad you had to lie down and sleep so you did n't use too much of it . ’
18 Initially we had to start from scratch to find out about drug use and drug users , for we were not even one-eyed kings in this land of the blind ; and we quickly found we were delving into a new and complex social world .
19 Oh no We had to look for work .
20 We had a hard physical test one morning , which comprised part of our ‘ Certificat Technique Élémentaire ’ , the exam we had to pass on completion of basic training .
21 So we paid that because they wanted and then we had to pay for stock .
22 Each week we have to listen to mystery hand drills and various bangs and hammerings as the Jamesons get increasingly excited about the whole thing .
23 In judging other people , we have to rely on intuition and empathy .
24 well — it looks like we have to rely on Speed and Macca for them goals — i guess one of them is our ‘ top-scorer ’ right now ?
25 But as advanced technology becomes more and more prevalent , we have to engage in analysis and diagnosis — that is , in ‘ information ’ — even more intensively or risk being swamped by the data we generate .
26 We have to live with uncertainty and we have to a far more adaptable than previous generations .
27 We have to live in hope and look to the future … and young players such as Tim Henman from Oxfordshire … who 's the Junior Champion …
28 We have to live in harmony and , in its way , this is an example of the sort of work I face . ’
29 To suppose that we have to choose between mentalism and behaviourism is like saying that we have to choose between saying that the words ‘ trump ’ and ‘ revoke ’ designate feelings of triumph and embarrassment , and saying that they designate triumphant and embarrassed behaviour .
30 B : ‘ We have to shop for food every other day .
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