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 " . |