Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practical tasks a carer has to carry out for a dementia sufferer are not necessarily , of course , the hardest part of care . |
| 2 | However , the Green Paper has come in for a variety of criticisms and there is little evidence that its recommendations will be acted upon in the short- or medium-term . |
| 3 | JACQUES Delors has come in for a lot of flak for the collapse of the Gatt world trade talks . |
| 4 | The prince has come in for a lot of criticism from the UN and the West for spending most of the past few months in China . |
| 5 | Pam has come down for a day of shopping , bringing along our adopted younger sister Kath . |
| 6 | As you may already realise , once again the Almeida has gone in for a lot of posh posturing got up as a drama of social consciousness . |
| 7 | Cleveland Ambulance NHS Trust has signed up for a Department of Health initiative which encourages healthy living for all staff . |
| 8 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 9 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 10 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 11 | I had this octopus once in Germany and it , we 'd gone out for a meal and I was gon na have steak and mushrooms and |
| 12 | I married Melanie , if I 'm honest , because she was the only one who 'd held out for a wedding-ring . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 14 | yeah so I mean he said we 're gon na have to go out for a drink and sit down and discuss it , you know |
| 15 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 16 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 17 | The more expressive the language , the more possible states can be described in it ; and hence , the larger will be the space of states that a solver may have to search through for a goal . |
| 18 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 19 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 20 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 21 | I 'm gon na have to pop out for a moment . |
| 22 | The rain having petered out for a while , we all went out to stare at the sunset , about which the two poets made lurid remarks . |
| 23 | " Did he die almost immediately , or is there any possibility that he could have walked about for a time , even locked the door and set the alarms ? " |
| 24 | well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm going to have to go out for a while . ’ |
| 26 | Dosh — I was pretty sure it was Dosh — and I danced some and she finished off the Kümmel , which meant we then had to sit down for a while near the window , where some scatter cushions had been laid . |
| 27 | so we had to sit down for a while . |
| 28 | Born in Cuba to a German-Jewish father and a black mother — ‘ I was sort of kosher , but swinging ’ — he cut sugar-cane in his youth before joining his father , a ship 's steward , on his travels , only to be accidentally left behind on Crete at 12 : ‘ I had to sit down for a minute — almost cried . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ She had to go out for a moment . ’ |
| 30 | The House of Lords allowed the defendant 's appeal with the result that the case had to go back for a retrial eleven years after the plaintiff had suffered damage . |