Example sentences of "[pron] had [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 2 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 3 | Whatever she [ mother ] needs , it 's there regardless … if her money did n't amount to whatever she needed , she would get it , even if I had to borrow for it , she would get it from somewhere . |
| 4 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 5 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 6 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 7 | That was the first time I had to cough for anybody that was , as well . |
| 8 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 9 | ‘ Why I had to plead for my baby 's life ’ |
| 10 | I had to fumble for the torch in the dark and work out for myself how to fix my bunk . |
| 11 | It was a joke — I had to cook for 70 people and there were 12 rooms and a pub as well that could seat 100–200 in summer . |
| 12 | I had to understudy for Prospero , one year , and still remember large chunks of the beautiful Tempest verse . |
| 13 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 14 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 15 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 16 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 17 | At the flat there were drinks parties and little dinners every week , which irritated me , as I had to wait for everyone to finish filling the air with their thoughts on the latest novel before I could go to bed on the sofa . |
| 18 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 21 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 22 | I had to wait for what seemed like hours . |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 24 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 25 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 26 | Mrs Hutchinson , who has two daughters , aged 16 and 21 , said : ‘ At first , Frank and I had to cope for everyone else . |
| 27 | I had to account for every penny I spent , but he never told me what he was spending . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 30 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |