Example sentences of "had [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to wait a long time for an answer , and just before the door opened I nearly came sufficiently to my senses to run away , but sanity came too late . |
| 2 | It had to provide a solid base for review articles and monographs devoted to the exposure of ‘ bourgeois falsifications ’ emanating from the West . |
| 3 | The low headroom on the staircase meant that we had to find a sensible height for the border by doing a ‘ dry ’ run without cutting any material from the roll ( an assistant is invaluable for this ) . |
| 4 | In the postwar economy , still beset by shortages of materials , and particularly of steel , the BEA , like the pre-nationalisation industry , had to fight a continuing battle for resources with Sir Edwin Plowden 's Central Economic Planning Staff and ultimately with the Cabinet . |
| 5 | Officially , he was supposed to have escaped by sliding down bedsheets from an upper window , but the truth is that CNN 's vice president , Ed Turner — no relation to Ted Turner — had to pay a hefty ransom for him . |
| 6 | The King 's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that . |
| 7 | He had to have a new battery for it , and two of the tyres were n't legal . |
| 8 | If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it . |
| 9 | A pot of coffee was spilled , and Sara had to get a damp cloth for the trousers of one of the visitors , who was involved in an unwise pretense that he had n't actually been asleep . |
| 10 | He considered this for a short time and concluded that he had to make a public stand for those things which he believed . |