Example sentences of "had [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 2 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
| 3 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 4 | Firemen had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe . |
| 5 | Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon . |
| 6 | He beat fellow American and world No 5 Michael Chang 7–5 , 6–2 , but had to wait for the result of the final round robin match in his group between big-hitters Goran Ivanisevic and Richard Krajicek to see if he would get through to the semi-finals of this last ranking competition of the year . |
| 7 | Change had to wait for the coming of the postwar years . |
| 8 | And then , anyone who owed less than £200 had to wait for the start of the next law term in another four months if he wished to apply for the discharge which would come upon his delivering his whole property to the single creditor who had stayed with the process as long as that . |
| 9 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 10 | The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others . |
| 11 | He had to compensate for the waste of a visit with his encounters , and with the countryside around the town , the haystacks , the brown earth speckled with whitish spots where the mark showed , so unlike the black earth of Holland . |
| 12 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 13 | James , however , held the unwavering view that it was amongst the weak and the exploited where one had to look for the root of historical change . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list . |
| 15 | When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world . |
| 16 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 17 | ( George McCluskey had to settle for a place on the bench , which opened the door for Tom Brown , who just a few months ago was playing Junior football with Glenafton . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | GROSVENOR had to settle for a point from a Section II encounter with Mid Antrim despite dominating for most of the 70 minutes . |
| 20 | He had to settle for the seat at Sladen 's right hand , opposite the Assistant Secretary . |
| 21 | Or do without is n't it you know , you had to stock for the sake of getting the business . |
| 22 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 23 | ‘ Everybody 's a contender , ’ Maxim said , so softly that Agnes had to think for a moment to be sure what she 'd heard . |
| 24 | In fact then he by that time he was living in Leeds , so he had to pay for the cost of removal from my store to Leeds . |
| 25 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 26 | The local communities had to pay for the equipment of the men selected and their expenses until they reached the county boundary , after which they served at the king 's wages . |
| 27 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 28 | Half way along we had to stop for a couple of hours because the ‘ road ’ had been washed away and the people who were travelling had to clear it . |
| 29 | Within the assembly council I personally valued your contributions the very courteous and thoughtful way in which you presented these and the courage with which you expressed at times the stand that you had to take for the interest of the Board . |
| 30 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |