Example sentences of "have [verb] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will find tiny plants and animals in the tank to help , but immature fish often have to go for periods without food . |
| 2 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 3 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 4 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 5 | Since last April , instead of having tax deducted at source from all accounts , we now have about 12.5m accounts which have registered for interest to be paid gross . |
| 6 | I refer to your fax of 16 February 1993 concerning the return you have received for completion from the Local Government Chronicle . |
| 7 | Nor , incidentally , will there be any point in my arguing that I have voted for Hazel on personal grounds and with no political intention : Hazel is a Nutty Party candidate and will if elected accept that Party 's whip . |
| 8 | Traditionally , we have looked for causes of learning difficulty in the child . |
| 9 | This time the researchers have looked for steps in the decay chain of a B meson , in which the b quark converts first into a c quark and then into an s quark ; this means that the B meson decays into a charmed D meson , and then a strange K meson . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , archaeologists and historians have looked for Vetus for years . |
| 11 | As concern over state expenditure mounted , governments have looked for ways of cutting back the volume of support for the railways . |
| 12 | Women often are as important as men in making and keeping these links , which is one reason why the importance of the kin network in employment frequently has been missed by other researchers , who have looked for people with the same surname . |
| 13 | ‘ For some time , independents have argued for intervention on behalf of a British film industry : an initiative based around support for films with low production budgets , which neither copy American styles , nor turn into Euro-puddings . |
| 14 | Five newcomers have applied for promotion to the Sealink level and the two front runners are Holyhead Town and St Asaph City , the respective Gwynedd and Clwyd League champions . |
| 15 | What happens if you have applied for compensation in the inland post , you are not satisfied and you still consider you have a claim ? |
| 16 | All who have applied for admission to the school are to be taken to have expressed a preference for that school : section 6(4) . |
| 17 | The Eastern Shawnee and the Miami tribes in Oklahoma , the Northern Arapahoe Economic Development Commission in Wyoming , the Ponca Industrial Corporation in Texas , the Prairie Island Indian Community in Minnesota , and the Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado have applied for grants of $100,000 each . |
| 18 | They , they are entitled , if they elect to do so , to continue to be members of the local government 's evaluation schemes , so they are eligible and have applied for membership on it . |
| 19 | Old Colwyn Sunday League clubs West Shore and Hotpoint Reserves have applied for membership of the Subaru Vale of Conwy League . |
| 20 | What did the lady your mother have made for flux in her household ? |
| 21 | This latter alternative , the old route , is strongly to be recommended , however , the traveller being rewarded by a magnificent intimate view of a mountain of rare visual appeal , Ben Loyal , the first of the scenic highlights I have selected for inclusion in this book . |
| 22 | They have appealed for help in finding his clothes and any information about his movements after leaving the dinner . |
| 23 | Police have appealed for help in tracing the last movements of Anthony Buck , 46 , of Bishopthorpe Road , York , whose body was discovered in the River Ouse at Selby on Wednesday evening . |
| 24 | Although Essex finally agreed to provide Thomas with special teaching in a state school , his parents are dissatisfied with the quality of tuition on offer and have appealed for help from Mr Clarke , Education Secretary . |
| 25 | POLICE have appealed for help after a car stolen from Wrexham was later used as a getaway car by burglars who raided a newsagent 's shop at Mynydd Isa . |
| 26 | POLICE have appealed for help after a car stolen from Wrexham was later used as the getaway car by burglars who raided a newsagents shop at Mynydd Isa . |
| 27 | Detectives trying to trace the vans — a Ford Transit and a Bedford — have appealed for information from anyone who may have sold such vehicles in recent weeks . |
| 28 | POLICE investigating an attempted murder bid on a leading Shankill Road loyalist have appealed for information from anyone who witnessed the attack . |
| 29 | POLICE have appealed for information in a bid to identify an elderly woman found wandering along a busy road . |
| 30 | Police have appealed for witnesses to the crash , which happened a mile west of Bowes at 8.10am on Sunday , between a Vauxhall Cavalier and a hired minibus . |