Example sentences of "have [verb] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Pogo would just have to wait for an answer . |
| 3 | But British and French workers did not have to wait for an economic upturn . |
| 4 | Lisa would just have to cope for an hour or two . |
| 5 | Sometime in the near future you may have to go for an interview and therefore you will be asking yourself the following questions : |
| 6 | Admittedly you often do have to search for an underlying structure in Berlioz 's work . |
| 7 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 8 | It introduces the thought that in his speech as well as in his writing , Johnson understood that the essence of art lies in the perfect marriage of form and content , therefore , Boswell may have reached for an accuracy beyond sycophancy . |
| 9 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 10 | Even the Government President of Upper Bavaria felt compelled to admit that the relief about Hitler 's survival was not unanimous , but that ‘ part of the population would have welcomed the success of the assassination attempt in the first instance because they would have hoped for an earlier end to the war from it ’ . |
| 11 | as well as a development charge to the Board , is still paying less in the total cost of his house than he would have to pay for an existing house with vacant possession . |
| 12 | If you think the time may come when you may have to care for an elderly or disabled person in your home , there are also grants available for adapting housing . |
| 13 | The FRES estimates that their members might have had about 60,000 temporaries on the payroll at any one time in 1985 ( a figure broadly consistent with the LFS data ) , but that some half a million persons might have worked for an agency for some period in the course of that year ( interview with FRES ) . |
| 14 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 15 | It was a remark he should have reserved for an aging Peruvian marksman called Cubillas . |
| 16 | The cost of the engraving alone would have paid for an entire single-cone Style O guitar |