Example sentences of "[adv] have [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er yes I was saying erm they only had the midwives in them days did n't they , to come for the birth and that and anyway my mother was was ill enough to have to send for a doctor . |
| 2 | She could n't find one , so had to settle for an orange juice . |
| 3 | We should not have to apologize for a vow of celibacy . |
| 4 | At Darlington , so that they would not have to wait for a connection , they had hired a special train to Richmond , where they were met . |
| 5 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 6 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer . |
| 8 | Lisa would just have to cope for an hour or two . |
| 9 | All I can suggest sir is the case is adjourned just have to arrange for a solicitor to be here . |
| 10 | It was the last place in the world she would ever have chosen for a tryst , as she would tell him when he turned up . |
| 11 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 12 | Bright , drafted in for his first start following injuries to David Hirst and Paul Warhurst , put them in front , but Trevor Francis 's men still had to settle for a point at Stamford Bridge . |
| 13 | After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune . |
| 14 | The board is also having to readvertise for a replacement to Dr Forwell after Mr Fyfe insisted that he must have a say in the appointment . |
| 15 | On top of this you 'll rarely have to queue for a route ( even on The Napes ) . |
| 16 | Jenny did not reappear and Sara began to think that she really had gone for a walk . |
| 17 | Yet morale in the European shops was never as high as in their UK counterparts and they often had to beg for a booster visit from their patrons . |
| 18 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 19 | You do n't have to play for a fortnight , do you ? |
| 20 | But again , flexibility is built in to the system : you do n't have to register for a degree in just one subject area , but a free to mix and match your courses to build a degree that is tailor-made to your own requirements . |
| 21 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 22 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 23 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |