Example sentences of "had [to-vb] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January .
2 We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . "
6 Sam Llewellyn 's family charter on the Lycian coast had to cater for all tastes , including those of a budding rock and roll band
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