we are not going to have

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svetlana14

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It confuses me a little bit as I hear kinda "we are not going to have" (at 02:23 [
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He says exactly what the subtitles say. "We're not gonna have to walk this way the entire time, are we?" The "to" of "to walk" is pronounced more like "tuh" (sorry, I don't do phonetic symbols, but I think that's what your "/tə/" might mean.

This sentence from your post is baffling: "There is a sort of audible subtle pause between "to" and "have" which lets me catch "to" and "have"."
No one says "to have" at any point.
 
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