Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 2 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe . |
| 4 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 5 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 6 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 7 | Barbara was bored with the bob she 'd had for the past four years and was ready for a complete change . |
| 8 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 9 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 10 | The question to be faced after the Robbins deliberations was whether the solutions they had proposed for the CATs constituted a model for future action . |
| 11 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 12 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 13 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
| 14 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 15 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 16 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 17 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 18 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 19 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 20 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 21 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 22 | Diana warmed to her theme as the letter , written on Kensington Palace notepaper , continued with her favourite lament — the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 23 | She consulted her own solicitor , and wrote back to Prince Philip in the same angry terms , stressing the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 24 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 25 | And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society . |
| 26 | It is appropriate that , through the medium of Medau News , we should thank Rita very warmly indeed for all the dedicated work she has done for the Society . |
| 27 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 28 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 29 | They were bare and shabby and if it had not been for the pretty yellow cloths she had made for the tables and the yellow and orange cushions she had covered for the chairs and the blue vase full of roses she had asked Maria to place on the chest of drawers , then they would have been dismal indeed . |
| 30 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |