Example sentences of "and [pron] have [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mrs Hutchinson , who has two daughters , aged 16 and 21 , said : ‘ At first , Frank and I had to cope for everyone else . |
| 4 | ‘ We bought it in Paris and I had to stand for hours while they fitted me . |
| 5 | Rhoda and I had to fend for ourselves . |
| 6 | And and I had to pay for it of course . |
| 7 | No sooner was I off the train than the guard blew the whistle and the train started and I had to run for it . |
| 8 | It 's not right and I have to lie for him ! |
| 9 | The feeling of the court was almost a tangible thing : something vile had happened and someone had to pay for it . |
| 10 | So i it was n't a very easy thing then to get them and as I say you 'd be preparing a fare increase which , perhaps a ha'penny on certain fares and a penny on fares above a certain range and you had to allow for depreciation , or resistance in the public travelling but er as long as you could always bring in a little extra from a fare increase it was worthwhile going forward . |
| 11 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 12 | Blacksmiths were the thing on the side of the road , did n't he do all the wheeling , mend your wheels , and all horse , all iron wheels , and things like that , wo n't years ago , and you had to send for him to come and do 'em , w well , he had men that he 'd , that he 'd taught like boys , apprentices . |
| 13 | So why did n't you tell them , like Lucy comes late and you have to wait for her and everything ? |
| 14 | But , you might find the trip you want is full , and you have to go for another . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes and you have to pay for them , do n't you ? |
| 16 | I mean , look at er , George Bush in America , he 's tried to act like forty , as I 've tried to do a , and you have to pay for it . |
| 17 | No , and she had to pay for the petrol . |
| 18 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 19 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 20 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 21 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 22 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 23 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 24 | Priorities only seem useful when we can not get exactly what we want and we have to settle for second-best . |
| 25 | ’ Even if a car is n't in stock and we have to wait for it to be built , we can generally hold the agreed price . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ There are children with physical , mental and behavioural difficulties and we have to look for a range of staff to reflect the balance , ’ he said . |
| 27 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 28 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 29 | Then , police claim , someone took a shot at them , and they had to withdraw for their own safety . |
| 30 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |