Example sentences of "to have [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were n't any houses then and there was a big ditch where the canal side and erm we used to have to wait for each other , because no street lamps , nothing at all like that and er really we used to be afraid and then when the first bus ran , shall I tell you this , when the first bus ran from , from Bloxwich to Willenhall of course word got around that the buses were beginning , because the roads were only ruts , they were n't tarmacked roads then and it was certainly gentlemen first for the first there were about three hundred waiting that was a lot of at the top is it Street , I think it 's that and all the gentlemen were first but we , some of us managed to scramble on , but erm then they used to break down very very often because the roads the roads were in such a terrible condition they were only ruts . |
| 2 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 3 | He says it is not acceptable to have to wait for 2 years . |
| 4 | The French Minister-Delegate for Foreign Affairs , Alain Vivien , who had visited Djibouti on Dec. 26-28 , was understood to have pressed for further progress towards a multiparty system . |
| 5 | ‘ Value billing ’ should , in theory , be a consequence of the value-added auditing service that most firms claim to have offered for several years . |
| 6 | But other righteous causes are going to have to look for another way to organise . |
| 7 | he ought to have stayed for several days . |
| 8 | ‘ I am fortunate to have played for two clubs with passionate fans . |
| 9 | He is said to have served for twenty-five years as rector of the cathedral fabric fund and is undoubtedly found in association with the cathedral 's masons and workshops . |
| 10 | Roy won four full International caps for Northern Ireland , is the only Palace player ever to have appeared for that country and was the first 3rd Division player to be selected for a full international . |
| 11 | ‘ Headway Intermediate is one of the soundest , most innovative coursebooks to have appeared for some time . ’ |
| 12 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 13 | But the major political parties have yet to get the real message , namely that the people know full well that someone , somehow , is going to have to pay for German unification . |
| 14 | The law granted Estonian citizenship automatically to all Estonians ; immigrants applying for citizenship would be required to have lived for two years in the country . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 " . |