Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | All over Britain and Europe , ethnic minorities have suddenly begun to fear for their lives as extreme right-wing parties experience a resurgence of power and support . |
| 2 | Expert groups in many Western countries have already decided to lobby for changes towards a healthier lifestyle without waiting for results . |
| 3 | While firms wait for their luck to turn , investors are doing their best to ignore both the horrible results which companies have just begun to announce for last year and the recent sharp decline in bond prices . |
| 4 | ‘ I have always wanted to write for as many people as possible , I want my books to be on the general fiction shelves as well as the feminist shelves . ’ |
| 5 | Although the housing scheme is the size of a town , the working class people who were placed in them were never afforded the amenities or investment of a town and from the beginning until present , have always had to fight for decent schools , transport , shops , housing , play , entertainment and recreation facilities , all the basic infrastructure needed to build a community and which the people in the inner city and middle class parts of the city take for granted . |
| 6 | I am still dreaming of the white cotton lace bedspread that I have always promised to knit for my ‘ best friend ’ because I know that she had always wanted one . |
| 7 | Many Jordanians have also volunteered to fight for Iraq . |
| 8 | Established fashion names have also looked to workwear for inspiration : Stussy 's heavy army-type hooded tops . |
| 9 | Feeling that they needed their own independence , they have now returned to look for funding from the voluntary sector . |
| 10 | have n't got to fight for prosecution . |
| 11 | And though I can not return until it pleases the gods to end the world , I have never ceased to long for it . |
| 12 | Though this may sound childish — and I was in fact childish in many ways , as young women are who have never had to shift for themselves but have always had someone to stand between them and the world — it did , in fact , help me to behave better to Nonni , who was not stupid at all in matters of feeling , and easy to hurt . |
| 13 | This concept is indeed abstract for those of us who have never had to fight for it or defend it . |