Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He discoursed about his understanding of the Church and he said that we had to hold the high and the low together but for his part his sympathies were with the high . |
| 2 | So we thought we would have to lose either the display case or the rebuilt wall — and then an old friend of ours , who happens to be the Emeritus Professor of Suburban Buildings at the University of Lutterworth , visiting one day , told us that these houses never actually had a dividing wall between the front room and the back parlour-so we had to take the whole wall out and remodel the opening in the original style , with a simple lintel and unadorned verticals , which we bought at auction in Fyfe . ’ |
| 3 | We had to fix the unfortunate bird to the creance , place it on its perch in a field , pay out the long line , walk to the place where we wanted it to fly to and hold our gloved hands out with a piece of meat . |
| 4 | It got so bad we had to do the full old lady bit and put up net curtains . |
| 5 | Apollinaire in a review of the Salon des Indépendants of that year wrote : ‘ If we had to describe the general trend of this exhibition , we would say without hesitation — and with great pleasure — that it means the rout of Impressionism ’ . |
| 6 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 7 | He neglected all his duties and so there was nothing for it , either we had to wipe him off as a son , which is an impossible thing for a parent to do , or we had to decide the only other course open to us which was to kidnap him and have him de-programmed . |
| 8 | Mrs Colthurst 's agent , Robert Holden , told The Art Newspaper , ‘ My client is naturally anxious that the National Trust should have the house , but because of the urgency of the situation , we had to enter the open market ’ . |
| 9 | We had to get the basic structure right , the basic information flows in and then bring the consultants in . |
| 10 | Certain things were asserted beyond peradventure : namely , that we had to get the public-sector borrowing-requirement down , because if it went up or stayed up it would keep interest rates up . |
| 11 | ‘ Once the quads were born , everything stopped , except we had to get the top floor converted into a nursery , ’ John said . |
| 12 | They could n't continue , so it was quite difficult and we had to avoid the Iraqui army as we did that . |
| 13 | Till then , we had to administer the present law . |
| 14 | The day when McQuaid always used to come from the fair in Mohill and we had to make the big tea . ’ |
| 15 | We have to say the English one and I hate saying da-da-da so I make my own one , an Indian prayer and say it . |
| 16 | Firstly , we have to realise the full potential for growth and profitability of our plastic tube technology . |
| 17 | Yet all the time we have to remember the inherent , native dynamism of Minoan culture ; all the way through there are changes , experiments , alternations between abstraction and naturalism ; all the way through , Minoan art is freely ranging , ever searching for new forms of expression . |
| 18 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 19 | We have to stop the bleeding and get a win . |
| 20 | We have to stop the crazy driving . |
| 21 | So we have to assess the current state and if we did n't know then in our particular example , cos if we had n't made the room numbers had been done . |
| 22 | But if we want to delivery good , high quality services , we have to employ the right number of people to do it , and Queenie is just , you know , talking well near nonsense . |
| 23 | The most people that we could get together in a weeks notice , we have to put the actual amalgamation of the team |
| 24 | So we have to respect the quoted ‘ Breaking Strain' . |
| 25 | It 's going to be a hundred limes worse next year when we have to move the whole army . ’ |
| 26 | We have to take the long-term view on a market which will be important by the end of the decade . |
| 27 | And for this we have to scrutinize the comparative process of urban development . |
| 28 | However , we have to acknowledge the considerable benefits that have accrued in the past because people have hunted — benefits to conservation in general , not to the individual animals being hunted . |
| 29 | In order to grope towards an understanding of them we have to grasp the abstruse notion of the particle sea . |
| 30 | ‘ Sorry to get you here so early , ’ he said , ‘ but Angela 's death means we have to reorganize the entire workload , and I wanted a longer meeting today . |