Example sentences of "have [to-vb] [art] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul , her husband , generally left before seven and had lunch out with one of his friends , while she used her free day to take care of a thousand chores more annoying than the duties of her job : she had to go to the post office and fret for half an hour in a queue , go shopping in the supermarket , where she quarrelled with the saleswoman and wasted time waiting at the check-out , telephone the plumber and plead with him to be precisely on time so that she would n't have to wait the whole day for him . |
| 2 | However , it is possible that the vet may not be able to come to your home immediately , and it can be extremely traumatic to have to wait a whole day until the vet is free to leave the surgery . |
| 3 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 4 | Gardener John Tobin , of Speke , who had to wait an extra day for his £160-weekly wage , said : ‘ It 's a disgrace . ’ |
| 5 | Autee Lord Justice had this to say at page nine two seven quote , having decided that he , brackets the judge close brackets , could make no allowance for the possibility of increased pension payments because of the increased cost of living index , he had to decide the present day value of the fixed sum payable in thirty one years time . |
| 6 | Had to get a blinking day off did n't he , that bloke ? |
| 7 | Just ponder for a moment the idea of persuading people to buy a product that they do n't need ( quite the reverse ) , which they then literally burn up in smoke and have to replace every single day . |