Example sentences of "had [to-vb] for [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 2 | The report discusses the implications of the short time local authorities had to plan for use of the grant , in particular the difficulties within the time scale of consulting users , carers and others in planning for and providing new services . |
| 3 | You had to leave for work at 8.25 . |
| 4 | Anne had to leave for work for two o'clock but she proudly displayed her ring to her friends and they all sincerely wished her happiness . |
| 5 | Mr Barrett , father of two , of High Mickley , Northumberland , had to crawl for help after being hit in the leg and stomach injured . |
| 6 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |
| 7 | It is only two months since the American arm of Quintex , the media group put together by Australian Christopher Skase , had to file for protection from its creditors under bankruptcy laws . |
| 8 | Brian had to settle for second with three roach taken on caster for 1–1–0 . |
| 9 | In 1932 , the young hopeful Graham Greene had to pay for part of Stamboul Train to be reprinted after J B Priestley had objected to ‘ Mr Savory ’ , a pompous writer of potboiling sagas . |
| 10 | We shall just have to pretend it 's not there , there 's not , there 's not quite as bad as when I had to speak for Amnesty on Radio Essex last year and it was live , as every word , every word I spoke was being you know being heard by a lot of people and that 's , that was very , that was very intimidating . |
| 11 | After devastating some local villages , perhaps as much to gain additional supplies as for any military purpose , the Norman forces had to prepare for battle with a formidable Saxon army . |