Example sentences of "to have [verb] for [adj] " 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 The shepherd answered that they were , and the emperor cried ‘ Now I am going to have to sleep for another hundred years ! ’
8 he ought to have stayed for several days .
9 ‘ I am fortunate to have played for two clubs with passionate fans .
10 if you 've , you 've not already opted for individual er taxation er and you decide to do so after retirement how , how do I go about doing that , I mean does , does i if I invest er a lump sum in my wife 's name , we 've got to have opted for individual
11 Scotland , one fears , are going to have to hope for some snell April blasts for the Fijians to feel uncomfortable at Murrayfield when the Rugby World Cup Sevens are staged next month .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Headway Intermediate is one of the soundest , most innovative coursebooks to have appeared for some time . ’
15 So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks .
16 He claims to have worked for three of Britain 's leading racing teams in the 1970 ‘ s , including that of Graham Hill , perhaps Britain 's greatest-ever driver .
17 ‘ And I 'm afraid you are going to have to pay for that sinful act .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years .
21 They were alleged to have ordered for 28 PC-5s overseas , but this probably never materialised .
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 These show public industry to have accounted for 11 per cent of GDP , not far short of 10 per cent of the workforce and a level of investment equivalent to the whole of private manufacturing [ Prest and Coppock , 1983 ] .
24 Overall it would appear to have accounted for less than a tenth of the income of spiritualities ; in seven Norfolk parishes in 1658 the glebe varied from one-eighth to two-thirds of the living , though the average scarcely exceeded a quarter ; acreages ranged from one to fifty-two with a median of twenty-four in these and three other parishes .
25 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 " .
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