Example sentences of "[vb -s] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 2 | Japan has had to settle for second best . |
| 3 | This terrorist activity brought home to Americans what the United Kingdom and , more recently , the city of London has had to tolerate for years . |
| 4 | A student theatre has had to close for four months because of the risk of fire . |
| 5 | I would like to know if anyone else has had to pay for shore dives as I am told this is an illegal practice . |
| 6 | In Sweden , government prevention policy has been directed to heterosexuals , so that the gay movement has had to look for its own information . |
| 7 | The theatre like most other organisations have actually looked for savings and this this trust has had to look for seventy thousand pounds savings . |
| 8 | The freeze on spirits duty acknowledges , if it does not yet rectify , the wholly unjust domestic tax regime against which the Scotch whisky industry has had to struggle for years . |
| 9 | His job is so delicate that to ring birds like this Bill has had to train for two years under the watchful eye of a certified ringer . |
| 10 | The man in charge of Gloucestershire 's schools has had to prepare for the worst — though he hopes a compromise will be reached : |
| 11 | Jan Aage says having scored for Norway he now hopes he can score for swindon in the league and that this is a turnning point he would rather score for swindon than norway … |
| 12 | She said , ‘ She appears to have asked for her letters back . |
| 13 | Such a stroppy strategy appears to have worked for Bloomberg Business News , a New York-based financial news service . |
| 14 | This arrangement appears to have lasted for around a century . |
| 15 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 16 | However , that buying policy seems to have existed for only a very short period and to have been an aberration , as indeed is Fishbane 's reign . |
| 17 | In his entourage of personal servants and clients , along with an Irish doctor and scholar-poet ( who seems to have stayed for nearly thirty years in Charles 's circle ) , he had a court-jester . |
| 18 | He seems to have taught for a while , but already politics called him , and with his father 's support he took ship for France . |
| 19 | Korean establishments were the first the crowd seems to have made for . |
| 20 | After this he seems to have retired for a time to his Scottish estates . |
| 21 | In logical terms , this is the reverse of the first , consecutive pattern , but like it , it seems to have emerged for a mixture of educational and other reasons . |
| 22 | There was a time when parents had a repertoire of such material ‘ in their heads ’ , but the oral handing down seems to have failed for many people . |
| 23 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 24 | Once again , by failing to opt clearly enough for peace , he seems to have opted for war . |
| 25 | As early as the 1550s the Venetian government had begun sending young men to Constantinople to learn the language : this seems to have continued for about a century but then faded away . |
| 26 | Excitement indeed ! and it even caught up a sober and spiritually distanced Quaker who could not " find words sufficient to draw it in colours strong enough " but has left a useful description of a phenomenon which seems to have lasted for several weeks , " when the great noise subsided , but the fire still existed " . |
| 27 | Also , habitation only seems to have lasted for a short time , and Aggersborg may never have been finished . |
| 28 | Because a frightened , defensive cat shows extreme pupil expansion , an opposite signal seems to have evolved for its dominant , aggressive and fearless rival . |
| 29 | ‘ I started to look at things a bit differently after that , and it certainly seems to have worked for me . ’ |
| 30 | This seems to have helped for eventually the topic ceases to be discussed . |