Example sentences of "had [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 2 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 3 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 4 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 5 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 6 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 7 | The Lancashire skipper then had to wait for a tense two minute trial by television to decide whether he could continue his burgeoning innings . |
| 8 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 9 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 10 | I had to go for a piss . |
| 11 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
| 12 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 13 | ‘ Elaine said she had to go for a blood test . |
| 14 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 15 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 16 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 17 | The landlords of this period often had a bond of sympathy with their tenants in that they too had to struggle for a living , and that their living conditions , especially in the tenth and early eleventh centuries , were not widely different . |
| 18 | There one had to stand for a moment while one 's name was read out — then another little push — a curtsey and four steps forward to just below the Queen . |
| 19 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 20 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 21 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |
| 22 | You had to look for a pairing between murderer and victim . |
| 23 | Eventually , Maryport Council had to apply for a special nuclear waste disposal licence from the Department of the Environment so that it could legally dump the silt back in the sea again . |
| 24 | Here the footpath ended so we had to walk for a few hundred yards along a stretch of country road . |
| 25 | The 5Os was a time when the hatred , fears and austerities of wartime Europe were still in recent collective memory , as were the two ounces of mildewy cheese that had to do for a whole week 's ration in those blackout , blitz and Mother Hubbard 's cupboard days of the previous decade . |
| 26 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 27 | ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list . |
| 28 | When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Their action comes three days after BR had to postpone for a year its bill to build a high-speed Channel tunnel rail link to central London . |