Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She did not have to wait long for a train .
2 You will only have to cancel once for the message to be understood .
3 I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week .
4 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
5 it 's no good I 'm gon na have to go out for a breath of fresh air .
6 Many old galvanised cisterns will have rusted sufficiently for the water to be leaking through and showing damp patches on the ceiling .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 But they did not have to search far for the Bishop 's secretary : as soon as he saw the pageant wagon , he bore down on it .
10 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 .
11 Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting .
12 Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here .
13 If she was so genteel , she would n't have come here for the pittance she 's paid .
14 They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below .
15 She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done .
16 No mother could ever have done more for the girl .
17 No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow .
18 No one can have done more for the historian studying Islay than Mrs Lucy Ramsay who had " The Book of Islay " and " The Stent Book & Acts of the Bailliary of Islay " prepared for publication Two hundred and fifty copies of each were printed privately , about fifty were presented to friends and libraries and the remainder lost in a fire at a warehouse in Glasgow .
19 Those who made the journey to London might have done so for a variety of reasons .
20 I may have dozed off for a while .
21 I wondered briefly what a British nursing sister would have said , but the act of motherly comfort may well have made up for the lack of quiet during the day .
22 Perhaps I should have formed a better plan ; perhaps I should have made instead for the Villa Diodati , to see if I could secure any friends and allies there .
23 He would just have to play along for a while and wait for an opportunity .
24 ‘ He 'd have to look elsewhere for a vet . ’
25 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 . ’
26 As I have argued all along , although a consideration of possible criteria is important in a wider context , the idea of numerical identity can not be literally " defined " in terms of the criteria of re-identification of particulars , which means that we shall have to look elsewhere for an answer to our problem .
27 With the stake firmed in the hole , hold the tree up with a simple string loop , and plant it just as you would for a bush — except that , without the bud to go by , you will have to look carefully for the soil ‘ tide mark ’ where it was growing in the nursery and finish off to that height , with the standard stem about 1½–2 inches ( 4–5cm ) from the stake .
28 I 'm gon na have to pop out for a moment .
29 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 .
30 " 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 ? "
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