Example sentences of "we have [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald was impatient : ‘ Do we have to waste time on an empty box ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I say , ’ said Hilary Frome , calculatedly offensive , at the height of Corbett 's triumph , ‘ do we have to waste time on these party tricks ? |
| 3 | So not only do we have to take account of the confusability of individual words in the lexicon , but also of word strings . |
| 4 | If , by the question ‘ Can duplication be avoided ? ’ you mean ‘ Will we have to pay double ? ’ , the answer is undoubtedly no . |
| 5 | ‘ How long do we have to discuss AMNASS ? ’ |
| 6 | Marlon : Why did we have to come shopping ? |
| 7 | ‘ Do we have to fly tourist class with all the ordinary people ? |
| 8 | This is the only contract we will have with our client should we have to pursue payment via legal means . |
| 9 | We had to receive grace . |
| 10 | We had to say farewell to an outstanding sales force , under Tony Ferrary , at the end of November . |
| 11 | But we had to cease publication 2 months ago because we had no funding . |
| 12 | ‘ At a time when political parties could n't get twenty people in a room , we had to hold overflow meetings everywhere we went , ’ recalls Priestley , ‘ I do n't think we were ineffectual . |
| 13 | The Conservative Government always said that we had to create wealth first , and then improve our public services . |
| 14 | We had to go boom like . |
| 15 | ‘ In line with this responsibility , we had to take action against G&L . |
| 16 | So we had to arrange transport for women who could not be accompanied to the group . |
| 17 | Whether he come from this or not , but erm we were dredging the West Bank cos er the kind of ship we got there then were the big tankers and there were n't enough room for them to swing round , so we had to dredge part of the bank out to make the swinging berth and erm there we dredged a bone up about that size |
| 18 | ‘ We had to stop recording . |
| 19 | We had to stop drinking or we 'd have got nothing done this year , like ! ’ |
| 20 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 21 | When I was in the fourth year at high school we had to do work experience for two weeks . |
| 22 | ‘ We had to do manoeuvrability tests in three different cars , including a Cavalier automatic and a Corsa which I 'd never driven before . |
| 23 | ‘ We had to put metal grids down , with sand over the top before we could do any filming . |
| 24 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 25 | Systemics did n't exist in my nursery days , and we had to use contact pesticides . |
| 26 | Earls Court , on the other hand , was so packed we had to use overflow rooms . |
| 27 | We had to use turps did n't we , to dissolve the printing inks ? |
| 28 | The weather was so bad that we had to chip ice off the upper-deck almost round the clock . |
| 29 | We had to change direction . |
| 30 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |