Example sentences of "have [verb] for [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has to wait for food to be cooked and prepare to wait for it . |
| 2 | All take marketing seriously and the time has come for education to be added to the list . |
| 3 | The winches could then be run instantly without having to wait for steam to be available . |
| 4 | In contrast , if a married woman were unfaithful to her husband she might have to die for Izzat to be restored . |
| 5 | The best friend of Princess Diana 's brother was said to have arranged for bullion to be secretly exported to India . |
| 6 | Moreover , since , under section 6(4) all those who had applied for admission to the school had expressed a statutory preference for that school , the rejection of any one of those applicants involved a failure to give effect to the preference of one or more parents . |
| 7 | By the end of May around 15,000 former BCCI depositors had applied for compensation to the UK 's Deposit Protection Board . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the Republic , effectively abandoned by its fellow democracies , had turned for help to the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Just under a century later , in 869–70 , the Emperor Basil II , though he had turned for help to Pope Hadrian II , was responsible for summoning the fourth Council of Constantinople . |
| 10 | Talks on a post-war coalition concluded indecisively , but the Prime Minister had called for progress to be made on plans for full employment . |
| 11 | Mr Gould had urged a referendum on the Maastricht treaty and Mr Blunkett had called for sterling to be revalued in the ERM . |
| 12 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 13 | The laundry women and the scrubbers had asked for dinner to be provided but the committee felt that ‘ the wages of these employees were quite adequate ’ and the application was rejected . |
| 14 | It was unusual for her to have been alone then , but she had asked for time to herself . |
| 15 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 16 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 17 | Hitler had stood for resistance to a cancer spreading across Europe . |
| 18 | Then she dried her tears and read aloud the epigraph Orwell had chosen for Homage to Catalonia to make sure her voice would not betray her . |
| 19 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 20 | Now he 's come for advice to his local stockbrokers . |
| 21 | Five newcomers have applied for promotion to the Sealink level and the two front runners are Holyhead Town and St Asaph City , the respective Gwynedd and Clwyd League champions . |
| 22 | All who have applied for admission to the school are to be taken to have expressed a preference for that school : section 6(4) . |
| 23 | As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over . |