Example sentences of "had [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 2 | ‘ I have had to wait a long time for the freedom , but it will be passed down and at least I can say that I was a Freeman of Chester . |
| 3 | Lonrho and its shareholders , whatever the merits of their case , have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established . |
| 4 | I have had to find a provisional title for the venture to use in my various requisitions for staff , accommodation , etc . |
| 5 | It would have been a different story if they 'd had to find the key money for the flat themselves . |
| 6 | If Shakespeare wrote a play with a cast of twenty-five , then he must have had to write a separate copy for each of the cast . |
| 7 | She decided not to go back to the bank , because they would have had to create a special job for her . |
| 8 | Because nature abhors a vacuum , we have had to produce the second document for today 's debate — ’ Labour 's Public Expenditure Plans ’ . |