Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | I should have been very glad of your society this last year , Maureen has been at the Royal College of Music , and I have been much alone , only for the animal 's company I do n't know what I should have done and poor Mr. Papworth [ a dog ] has been so ill we had to telephone a vet up at 2 a.m. one morning it was a funny night , Jack and I in our dressing gowns in the kitchen trying to comfort Mr. Papworth . |
| 32 | In the early days , he says : ‘ We had to do a lot of nimble footwork to stay alive . ’ |
| 33 | The way the vehicle was hit , there was one person in the back so we had to do a 3-door conversion and made a 2-door car into a 3 , so it took longer . |
| 34 | We had to do a story when something unusual happened . |
| 35 | And then when we went out right , we had to do a tackle , you know a big tackle bag . |
| 36 | We had to do a three hour |
| 37 | We had to put a bloke in hospital there ; and so the owd skipper say to me : ‘ Boy , ’ he says , ‘ we ought to have another hand . |
| 38 | This was something we had to put a stop to straight away , and after relaying time and again the simple formula TMPF : TRIM — MIXTURE — PITCH — FLAPS , which he repeated , he always forgot to take action . |
| 39 | We 're going to talk to you about er Farm project and its basic problems which we had to put a programme together and er make the job |
| 40 | when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples . |
| 41 | We had to use a tarp only once . |
| 42 | 1976 , it may be remembered , was the year of the great drought , and we had to wait a frustrating three months until there was rain in sufficient quantity and enough water in the river to try it out . |
| 43 | We had to wait a long time because I had my mother to look after and she was rather difficult . ’ |
| 44 | In summer , we had to wear a panama hat with the school band round it . |
| 45 | Goal hero Steve Mardenborough added : ‘ We knew we had to get a result because we 've slipped up a little bit recently . |
| 46 | Before before we could get nationalization , we had to get a Labour government . |
| 47 | Said Mr Costain : ‘ We would have liked to build a replacement with a wooden verandah and steps , but it ca n't be done in this day and age , so we had to build a concrete one like Fort Knox . ’ |
| 48 | We had to find a proper bin to chuck it in . |
| 49 | After Peter 's death in 1982 , we had to find a home for our private collection of 20,000 children 's books and comics . |
| 50 | ‘ This time we rehearsed in England for three weeks and then flew to Houston , Texas , and rehearsed in the Goodyear Blimp hangar , because the screens the band use are so huge that we had to find a place big enough hold them ! |
| 51 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 52 | Unfortunately , television studios are strangely designed and dressing-rooms are often miles away from the studio , so we had to find a place where she and her entourage could relax in comfort without the need to climb stairs . |
| 53 | We had to find a way of convincing ourselves that any move , no move , any news , no news , good treatment , bad treatment were all indicative of imminent release . |
| 54 | Because we had to find a nurse to ask |
| 55 | First we had to find a new propeller and this was delivered by Sam , an engineer from Technical Branch , who made a record marathon run in his tiny van from Southampton to join us at Oban . |
| 56 | Such a short time she was in my arms and then we had to find a hole in the earth to place her ; a piece of stone to mark her passing . |
| 57 | Finding the younger children schools took up all our time to begin with , and then we had to find a way of surviving . |
| 58 | specific points in the development of people , whilst that we recognise that the partners in practice was going to go into a quiet spell er something but we would run the risk if that happened on losing the expertise , the skill base that we 've got there and the undoubted qualities of the people within , we had to find a way in which we could use that skill base and other practice er of the practice and in fact that 's been quite successfully achieved in in recent months er with due diligence work for example er with legal support work is another example , when people in the insolvency practice have been very active on special science weeks ago tree . |
| 59 | We had to find a way of reducing those change-over times by between 75 and 90% and to make the change stick . |
| 60 | We we got this cheap and we had to catch a tai train next day at nine o'clock , going to Newcastle . |