Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 2 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 3 | I 'll have to go for a little walk . |
| 4 | If Verve expand any further , they 'll have to apply for a live music permit in the next door dimension . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll have to look for a new posting . ’ |
| 6 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 7 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 8 | What Harry Lime missed out on , though , was the fact that if he 'd gone Club 18–30 instead of Austrian Airlines , and taken a couple of friends in tow who were paying the full price , he could have copped for a massive sixty sovs off his bill , got a suntan into the bargain , and avoided coming to a very nasty end in the sewers . |
| 9 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 10 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 11 | I remarked to my friend , ‘ You 'd have to wait for a long time to get a train from here , ’ he smiled and we both set off for the youth hostel down the road . |
| 12 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 14 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 15 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 16 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 17 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 18 | Last Friday the civil servant in charge of government policy on radioactive waste management reiterated Whitehall 's position that a solution to the disposal issue would have to wait for a future generation . |
| 19 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 20 | It would take about er it would take about three days like to really give it and then it would have to lie for a wee while to harden you know , the polish to harden . |
| 21 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 22 | We would have to hope for a Tory victory , but , because of the uncertainty about the outcome of the election , he could not put her on the waiting list . |
| 23 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
| 24 | The filthy canalside lacked most of the qualities Lefevre would have chosen for a romantic interlude , but some men were not so particular . |
| 25 | Publicans would have to apply for a special children 's certificate as they have to do in Scotland . |
| 26 | Aches and pains sometimes ease up when the menopause is over but many of us will have to settle for a certain amount of back pain , headaches and limited movement from now on . |
| 27 | You will have to pay for a new survey , solicitor 's fees , lender 's solicitor 's fees , arrangement fees , and sometimes your existing lender 's redemption penalty . |