Example sentences of "have [to-vb] for [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 2 | The exporter who has to plan for his company 's future in a climate of uncertainty about exchange rates is like the man forced to build his house on sand . |
| 3 | It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that with regard to the explicit curriculum , RE has to fight for its life — constant vigilance is the necessary price it pays for retaining any foothold at all in a curriculum groaning under the weight of other priorities . |
| 4 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 5 | Ollie has to fight for his pride . |
| 6 | This obviously means that the male 's workload more than doubles , as he has to hunt for his mate and the babies as well as himself . |
| 7 | I ca n't imagine he has ever had to search for his mother , or had narcolepsy , or become a hustler , yet he does all three so brilliantly in the film it breaks your heart . |
| 8 | ‘ My parents died when I was a baby , you know , and for the last three years I 've had to work for my food . |
| 9 | Accepting shareholders will have to wait for their cash for that period . |
| 10 | TWO Liverpool cousins who have become the first prison visitors awarded damages after a search ordeal will have to wait for their cash , following a Home Office decision to appeal against the award . |
| 11 | But until manufacturers and club professionals come to realise that a significant number play the game left-handed , the world of golf will just have to wait for its Gower , Seles , McEnroe and White . |
| 12 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 13 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 14 | I think though , your lamp you 're gon na have to wait for your lamp because that 's but you can have your desk |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll have to wait for your supper tonight , ’ announced the old girl . |
| 16 | It is unlikely , but some creditors may yet have to sue for their money . |
| 17 | I am covered in scars ; I do have to suffer for my art ? |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think people should have to work for their dole money , although some sort of ‘ workfare ’ programme might help some people in terms of references or whatever . ’ |
| 19 | I do not mean decent Conservative values like the Citizen 's Charter or dreaming of the classless city ; I mean authentic Conservative values , like a social hierarchy in which power follows the rich who do not have to answer for their acts to hoi polloi , in which we do not have to feel responsible for anyone 's poverty or ill health , in which we do not have to ask questions about where the rich get their money from , and we can carve up the land to create a sort of apartheid state : each tribe to its own homeland . |
| 20 | Apart from that scenario where those people will have to apply for their jobs , and the T Os across the board |
| 21 | He even frowned at having to look for his acolyte . |
| 22 | EDDIE McGoldrick will have to fight for his place after a £1m move to Arsenal . |
| 23 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 24 | IBM Corp has filed a $7.3m federal lawsuit against Nutri-System Inc , saying the debt-ridden diet company failed to make payments on 500 personal computers it had leased — but it sounds as if the Armonkeys will have to sing for their money : the suit accuses the Blue Bell , Pennsylvania , company of making no payments since December and of refusing to allow IBM to repossess the machines , but some of Nutri-System 's major franchisees have filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy laws — Chapter 7 means curtains — and last week , banks seized all its cash and bank accounts , forcing the company to close its 283 company-owned weight-loss centres across the US ; while Nutri-System has failed to pay only $965,380 due under its lease with IBM , a default entitles IBM to recover the full lease sum of $7.3m . |
| 25 | The exhilaration of not having to account for my movements to my parents went to my head . |
| 26 | Would she always have to account for her actions now , Celia wondered . |
| 27 | On the flight back to Indonesia Suharto said that Indonesian communists living in China could return home , although they would have to account for their actions in court . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , he 'll have to pay for its upkeep . |
| 29 | That is the price that Labour will have to pay for its policy , in the unlikely event of its ever being able to implement it . |
| 30 | But schools , which will have to pay for their training needs from delegated budgets , will have to prioritise those needs and devise means of ensuring that they are properly met . |