Example sentences of "have a [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Things are starting to get much easier for the business person , although there 's still a big difference between setting up in Budapest , or Warsaw , or Prague , compared with somewhere in the country , where you may still have a long wait for a telephone connection . ’
2 He had a deep yearning for those long-ago summer holiday afternoons spent on the lawns or down by the lake with the two Debrace children .
3 They had a long wait for this one , almost an hour .
4 They had planned to fly out to South Africa but had a long wait for visas .
5 ‘ If a child after birth has no right of action for pre-natal injuries , we have a wrong inflicted for which there is no remedy , for , although the father may be entitled to compensation for the loss he has incurred and the mother for what she has suffered , yet there is a residuum of injury for which compensation can not be had save at the suit of the child .
6 ‘ If a child after birth has no right of action for pre-natal injuries , we have a wrong inflicted for which there is no remedy , for , although the father may be entitled to compensation for the loss he has incurred and the mother for what she has suffered , yet there is a residuum of injury for which compensation can not be had save at the suit of the child .
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