have occasion for

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"Sensible people," he once said to his sister Jane, "will give a bucket or two of water to a dry pump, that they may afterwards get from it all they have occasion for."

From Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Bruce, Wiliam Cabell

I have occasion for a guard: will you pledge me your honour to become an honest man, and I will make you my lieutenant?”

From Adventures in the Philippine Islands by La Gironière, Paul P. de

Sensible people will give a bucket or two of water to a dry pump, that they may afterwards get from it all they have occasion for.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 by Various

Thus you will spare yourself, and spare the family, the inconvenience of applying to them whenever you have occasion for pen, ink, paper, &c.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Latterly, the Duke of Queensberry took his money into his keeping, and let him only have what was necessary out of it, and, as he lived with them, he could not have occasion for much.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George