Example sentences of "have [verb] around for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Britain 's largest electricity maker , NatPower has to shop around for the cheapest fuel available . |
| 2 | This can be so even where you have not had to shop around for a more favourable report . |
| 3 | I went , and then I went well he ca n't have looked around for us too well because we were walking by the side of the road . |
| 4 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 5 | Not everyone unfortunately has children so you may have to cast around for other members of the family . |
| 6 | ‘ You could n't have waited half an hour — that 's all the journey from Olbia takes — and saved me the inconvenience of having to hang around for almost an hour ? ’ |
| 7 | DAS comes complete with a library of sampled sounds so you do n't have to scrape around for your own . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’ |
| 9 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 10 | At independence , the new governments had looked around for ways of publicizing their activities and seized upon the means to do so . |
| 11 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 12 | As the then district administrator put it , the district had scratched around for every spare penny over the years and sunk it into the hospital , and yet more and more resources were being demanded . |
| 13 | They had driven around for over an hour trying to find the rave that every one was going on about . |
| 14 | When you 've brawled around for as long as I have your senses get to know the kind of fix that you ca n't just walk through or away from . |
| 15 | I figured my body was telling me to rest , so I 've flopped around for the last two weeks eating steaks and drinking beef tea , and getting stronger every day . |
| 16 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
| 17 | The environment is of no concern to people who have to scrounge around for plant waste by the roadside for their own stoves . |