Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not have to wait long for a train . |
| 2 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons . |
| 9 | I may have dozed off for a while . |
| 10 | He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd have to look elsewhere for a vet . ’ |
| 12 | First , the shot-gun approach involves the buyer saying ‘ Unless you agree immediately to a price reduction of 20% we 'll have to look elsewhere for a supplier . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm gon na have to pop out for a moment . |
| 14 | Picture a teenage girl in Morocco for whom premarital loss of virginity is culturally intolerable and who faces the ‘ choice ’ , under male duress , of tolerating anal intercourse , or of submitting to vaginal penetration knowing that she will thereby have to leave home for a life of prostitution ; she may even know that both are related to acquisition of HIV . |
| 15 | " 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 ? " |
| 16 | It seemed she 'd have to stay here for a while . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll have to stay here for a while on business , ’ my friend the captain told me . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | They will have to reside there for a minimum of one month a year , but this may be waived for up to five years by an annual payment of $5,000 to the Bahamian government . |
| 20 | ‘ We 'll turn you in , arrange police protection , perhaps the family 'll have to move away for a while , but — ‘ |
| 21 | I must have stood there for a couple of hours , getting more and more fed up as my imagination worked overtime . |