Example sentences of "had [to-vb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 2 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 3 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 4 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 5 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 6 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 7 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 8 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 9 | Similar decisions were reached in the cases involving hole in the heart babies who had to wait for treatment because of a shortage of trained specialist nursing staff . |
| 10 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 11 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 12 | DR 's GEM was happily running on Intel 8088-powered XT machines whilst Bill Gates had to wait for Tandy 's Intel 80186 processor powered PC , just to make version 1.0 of Windows run efficiently . |
| 13 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 14 | However , Coun. Mrs Town said the time restrictions would seriously hamper disabled people who often had to wait for lifts into town . |
| 15 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 16 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 17 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 18 | Had to wait for James , I had n't noticed he 'd gone past |
| 19 | The report discusses the implications of the short time local authorities had to plan for use of the grant , in particular the difficulties within the time scale of consulting users , carers and others in planning for and providing new services . |
| 20 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 21 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 22 | I had to go for consumption . |
| 23 | Sometimes informants and subsources in Lebanon had to go for weeks without pay because of budget cuts and red tape , El-Jorr complained , citing names , chapter and verse . |
| 24 | When Elsie had to retire for health reasons , we were once again without a teacher but Hilda Lodge and Eleanor Pitman helped out and then Joan Gatfield , a leader in training , decided to do some training with us . |
| 25 | This led the government , in the words of one senior manager , repeatedly to ‘ move the goalposts ’ , in other words to change the criteria that BR had to meet for electrification schemes to be approved . |
| 26 | The taxman had his slice , I carried out further improvements on the house and , of course , I had to provide for Suzie and the children , Chloe and Clare , for two winters , with no other work . |
| 27 | Clothes were pounded in a ‘ dolly tub ’ and the whole process of washing was made harder by the high cost of soap : 2d worth had to suffice for clothes , floors and people for a week in 1913 . |
| 28 | ‘ We bought it in Paris and I had to stand for hours while they fitted me . |
| 29 | By the heathen poor , who had to find for James , |
| 30 | Oh no We had to look for work . |