Example sentences of "you have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your nanny told me you 'd gone for a walk . |
| 2 | You may want to instruct him to say each pair twice all the way through , without you having to ask for a repeat each time . |
| 3 | I also think that erm it 's up to erm us — I mean if you think of us as a whole travel industry — to really take a look at what we are providing and compare it with what is provided in other countries ; the standards of service , how long do you have to wait for a meal when you 're sitting down to eat in a restaurant , what are people used to in France and Germany and the USA ? |
| 4 | What do you have to pay for a pair of men 's shoes , for example ? |
| 5 | ‘ You 've volunteered for a harder , ’ Bicker retorted . |
| 6 | I mean at the moment of choice you 're faced with a set of people , including , let's say , one man and one woman , who on paper match each other and who perhaps , even if you 've adjusted for a possibility of the woman 's having to fight and so on , they 're equal on paper . |
| 7 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 8 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 9 | You 've asked for a lot ! |
| 10 | So , if it comes out as one , one squared is one so you 've accounted for a hundred percent or all of the variants in the other variable which means that if you know X you automatically know Y , or if you know Y you automatically know X. When you 're doing a correlation study , it 's very hard to work out what 's the dependent and what 's the independent variable because by it 's nature you do n't know . |
| 11 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
| 12 | In the new South Africa , if you 've worked for a white family for more than five years , you get to keep the house … |
| 13 | If you 've come for a session with Kafy , you 're out of luck she 's booked for the whole night by one of the priests from the Temple of Khepri . |
| 14 | Stockings were never long enough and the tension between suspender and stocking-top would result in spring-loaded legs ; if you had to run for a bus , the legs would keep going for three stops . |
| 15 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 16 | I am delighted that you have asked for a personal illustration and further details of SaverPlus 2001 . |
| 17 | You have to wait for a tr well first of all you have to we 'll the miss yeah , at twelve twenty-eight or whatever |
| 18 | ‘ I remember just before Steve Jones had his big breakthrough in Chicago 1984 , Alan said half-jokingly that all you have to do for a marathon is overtrain at 10,000m . |
| 19 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 20 | ‘ If I am correct , you have applied for a job with the British . |
| 21 | If you have applied for a grant or scholarship and are awaiting the outcome , give the name and address of the body to whom application has been made , and the amount and period applied for . |
| 22 | You have hidden for a long time , Maggie , and missed so much . ’ |
| 23 | In one spectacular piece of incompetence , HMG has thrown away everything you have suffered for a decade . |
| 24 | No matter how volatile the economy you seem to have divine protection , whether this is because you have saved for a rainy day or you are just downright lucky . |
| 25 | ‘ None of the things you have done for a start . ’ |
| 26 | You can buy just about everything you ever need in Funchal , but you may have to search to find it — many shops may just recently have run out of the very product you want , so that you have to search for a shop which still has old stock until more is imported . |
| 27 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 28 | Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university . |
| 29 | Limitations are imposed by the fact that you have to wait two months for the educational psychologist , you have to close the biology lab when it rains because it leaks and they have n't sent anyone to repair it yet , you have to apply for a short in-service course rather than the full-time MA that you really wanted to do because there are n't any secondments any more . |
| 30 | If you have opted for non-action , then you have opted for a living death . |