Example sentences of "you have [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But one of you has to make a start , Amy . |
| 2 | And you having to do a talk |
| 3 | But there are particular areas like this , you having to wait a long time and if you come into the building to go and see a film and you 've you 've left an hour to , to have some food you , you really should n't be missing the film because |
| 4 | ‘ The blade may be keener , the guitars may be sharper , the lyrics may be clearer , but how many times do you have to polish a knife before its cutting edge disappears altogether ? ’ he asked . |
| 5 | Did you have to do a lot of research ? |
| 6 | Erm would you have to do a lot of cleaning work as well in the kitchens ? |
| 7 | Erm , d' you have to do a picture for the north and south of it , or just one overall picture ? |
| 8 | Did you have to take a lot to the pawn shop ? . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you have to take a whole summer ? ’ she demanded angrily . |
| 10 | ought to be said really , since Alan is not here and is erm is resigning , well perhaps that could come a little later on because I think both Joan and Alan er there should be some record other than this about the work they have put in for the Society er I mean the only idea I have , I do n't know how much of a a precedent this is , whether , whether anybody should be offered life membership of the the society or is that only for do you have to reach a certain age |
| 11 | Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do . |
| 12 | What other ways can you have to close a question , when you want , wan na get a green light ? |
| 13 | ‘ Will you have to wear a carnation and carry a copy of today 's Post ? ’ asked Holly with a giggle . |
| 14 | Did you have to wear a uniform to go to work ? |
| 15 | ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home . |
| 16 | Did you have to have a different pinny every day then ? |
| 17 | Erm do you have to have a membership ? |
| 18 | Do you have to add a third scalp to your belt ? ’ |
| 19 | But we w did you have to pay a deposit ? |
| 20 | As I say , Well you 've you 've to spend a lot of time . |
| 21 | You 've to sit a lot in the shop , go to the back if you want to chat . |
| 22 | You had to pee a few times a day to survive . |
| 23 | If you wanted to take them off or even go to the lavatory , you had to undo a complicated buttoned flap at the front . |
| 24 | If you had to give a phoney address , could n't you at least have picked something that did n't have a remote basis in reality ? |
| 25 | Well you had to miss a go |
| 26 | doing in an arithmetic way or you had to use a sca , a log table . |
| 27 | Also , when presented with questions like ‘ What eats less , a horse or a bunny ? ’ , or a practical situation like ‘ Pretend you had to carry a bucket full of dirt and it was really heavy . |
| 28 | There were rows of cars outside when I went , and you had to take a ticket with a number when you sat down . |
| 29 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 30 | This meant that to go for a crap you had to take a shovel and dig a hole which was hard work when the ground was solid . |