Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea is that every person has another person ( or sometimes a group or committee ) to whom he or she has to account for the proper discharge of responsibilities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 4 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 5 | I agree with Roulet that everyone has to fight for equal conditions , and then we are happy to share . |
| 6 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And then it just became a drug that I had to take for every day use . |
| 10 | However , despite the fact that I had to pay for the survey , the society will not allow me to have a copy of the report . |
| 11 | The answer I tend to get off a lot of places is that I have to wait for twelve years |
| 12 | ‘ Christ , is n't it bad enough that I have to scrape for every bloody penny to do a piece of vital research , without being forced to turn my project into a circus for a lot of gawping idiots who wo n't have the least comprehension of what I 'm trying to do ? |
| 13 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 14 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 15 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 16 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Except you have to watch for the rabbit holes . |
| 18 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 19 | She wanted desperately to reach out to him , but she knew that she had to wait for him to make the first move . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something . |
| 22 | You can buy just about everything you ever need in Funchal , but you may have to search to find it — many shops may just recently have run out of the very product you want , so that you have to search for a shop which still has old stock until more is imported . |
| 23 | Your success could be resented by others , which may mean that you have to fight for dear life to hang on to what you 've got , or there will be little time to enjoy your personal or social life . |
| 24 | It 's enough that you have to pay for the licence , which is erm , what is it eighty pounds |
| 25 | Does that mean that you have to pay for them ? |
| 26 | This is part of the job , but it also means that you have to care for yourself and know about your own feelings as well as those of your clients . |
| 27 | Keeping a pet is not like owning a video , though , a pet is not just something that is there for your entertainment , it is something that you have to care for . |
| 28 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 29 | There was no toilet paper in the cell , so you had to ask for it . |
| 30 | Garden steps are not subject to the same regulations as those inside the house , so you have to decide for yourself the proportion of tread depth to rise which suits your site . |