Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 5 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Except you have to watch for the rabbit holes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was no toilet paper in the cell , so you had to ask for it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The music will tell you what to do , so you have to look for new technical solutions all the time . |
| 13 | Although we have to pay for hi we have to pay for Adrian you see . |
| 14 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 15 | ‘ Our lease was ending on the old building so we had to look for somewhere different , ’ says . |
| 16 | It leaves us saying ‘ We do n't like this one but we like that one less ’ , so we have to opt for lesser evils . ’ |
| 17 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 18 | The only one interested at that time was Thornton , so he had to stay for the moment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I was no expert , but I would know enough to make a preliminary diagnosis and summon an ambulance if I had to arrange for her to be taken into hospital . |
| 21 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 24 | if I had to pay for it |
| 25 | if I have to wait for you I 'll wait forever cos your eggs are not done |
| 26 | I 'll prepare a ship at Bristol , take you and Hawkins with me , and have that treasure if I have to search for a year ! ’ |
| 27 | But if I have to qualify for the Open , I 'll qualify . |
| 28 | she knew she would save Billy , even if she had to die for it . |
| 29 | He had assumed , discriminated , made her feel as if she had to apologise for the way she lived her life , when he knew nothing , nothing of her circumstances or her reasons . |
| 30 | Well , would n't you if you had to work for only one night a year ? |