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Idioms and Phrases

Also, have got to . Be obliged to, must. For example, We have to go now , or He has got to finish the paper today . The use of have as an auxiliary verb to indicate obligation goes back to the 16th century; the variant using got dates from the mid-1800s.

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But landlocked Malawi, which has relied on Tanzanian ports to carry its exports such as tobacco, sugar and soybeans to the rest of the world, will have to reroute its goods.

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Brontë ends up surviving and once again holds Joe at gunpoint while he begs her to kill him so he doesn’t have to face the fate he so deserves.

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You do not, in general, have to hand it to the man.

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You just have to squint at it for a minute.

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Lopez, the MP for Hornchurch and Upminster, said Kerry was not alone in being forced to consider whether she will have to shut up shop completely.

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