Example sentences of "have [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues . |
| 2 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 3 | Could not he have arranged for that report to be leaked to the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , because that might have prevented the hon. Gentleman from making the foolish pledge that Labour will abolish the excellent reforms ? |
| 4 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 5 | We 've let five people go who would have joined for another two grand |
| 6 | We might well have to wait for six months before we found a prahu which was heading in the right direction . |
| 7 | , Well we 'll have to wait for that one . |
| 8 | Precisely how these new popular energies would influence the world of high politics could not be anticipated : perhaps the movement would have to wait for one of Cobden 's ‘ accidents ’ . |
| 9 | You may have to wait for one or two things but you know like like copy sometimes but I did n't used to send them s erm er contracts in unless they had everything . |
| 10 | The verdict on that one , however , may have to wait for many years yet . |
| 11 | But I am afraid this will have to wait for another occasion . ’ |
| 12 | However , that discussion will have to wait for another day . |
| 13 | something else that could be quite actually misleading might sleep , be very sleepy , difficult to wake , so if you 've got the baby and you think your baby 's due for a feed and it did n't take very much at the last feed , you ca n't wake it up you should n't think oh well I 'll have to wait for another four hours , beginning to get worried so if the baby 's difficult to wake if it 's difficult to feed not sucking very well if the baby 's cold to touch and then there 's something which is very , very misleading , these babies can have bright red cheeks and bright red hands and feet and if you look at them you think oh they must be warm because they 're red |
| 14 | Managers who never leave do not have to wait for another manager to retire or die so that they can fill their shoes . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disappoint you , but Hadrian and his wall will have to wait for another time . ’ |
| 16 | All is well , however , except that the 140 people on the island will have to wait for another occasion to exercise their democratic rights . |
| 17 | A new motor car was for many a luxury that would have to wait for another day . |
| 18 | How much would he have received for that ? |
| 19 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 20 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 21 | No he do n't have to go for that |
| 22 | he does n't have to go for that . |
| 23 | and I said well I want it on but he said you 'll have to go for this . |
| 24 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 25 | You 'll have to go for another one anyway . |
| 26 | Well , I know in the interview you did with Patsy Kensit she gave herself a 4 so I 'll have to go for 2 . |
| 27 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 28 | Her publicists would have to search for other stars to publicise . |
| 29 | ‘ We do not have to search for critical mass , ’ Sir Denys points out . |
| 30 | Tomkins ' shares have come down , falling from 260p to 220p on the extra shares it will have to issue for this bid . |