Example sentences of "had [to-vb] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 2 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 3 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 4 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 5 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 6 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 7 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 8 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 9 | The plans for the new building had to provide for these units and also for the Continental Shelf Unit which occupied a building in the Government Training Centre at Granton from 1969 . |
| 10 | In October 1922 , employees ' wages were reduced by three shillings a week ! conditions at that time were severe ; men had to serve for several years on the seasonal staff before being taken on as a regular . |
| 11 | What he had to announce for this year was , particularly in its revenue-raising aspects , decidedly thin , indeed fiscally neutral . |
| 12 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 13 | In learning to account for its difference from non-Europe , it also had to account for this supremacy , for the unquestionable success it had had in imposing its hegemony on ‘ inferior ’ cultures . |
| 14 | He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . " |
| 15 | Well I thought you had to pay for that Ken ? |
| 16 | Until nine years ago he was heir to one of the biggest private fortunes in America , comfortably in step with the Gettys , Basses and Mellons , but had to ask for enough money to buy a house . |
| 17 | Sam Llewellyn 's family charter on the Lycian coast had to cater for all tastes , including those of a budding rock and roll band |
| 18 | This is a reflection of the fact that the series was designed primarily for broadcast and the producer had to cater for those home viewers who might be quite new to the language it presents . |