Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] he have [vb pp] for " in BNC.

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1 No alarm as yet ; it 's quite possible that he 's gone for one of his walks or he may be shopping or just visiting someone , but I 'm concerned . ’
2 Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo .
3 The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid .
4 It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others .
5 At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time .
6 He has heard that the King is ill and he has sent for me , from the distant land beyond Kelfazin , to find the cause of his sickness .
7 In a book generally very critical of Reagan , this comes as a rather surprising encomium to his effectiveness in office , although Stockman also makes it clear that the president did not get all that he had asked for in tax cuts .
8 The captain spoke few words , but agreed that the crew were better than he 'd hoped for , and that the ship was a fine one .
9 He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia .
10 City-dweller Moiphebi Nkuebe goes to visit a witchdoctor — and brings home rather more than he had bargained for .
11 But some Tories think he might get more than he has bargained for .
12 He did not compromise easily , but was willing to accept less than he had hoped for rather than to make no gain at all .
13 When I asked him to itemize the price , so I could add it up for myself , the total came to over £100 less than he 'd quoted for the bundle .
14 In the end , de Gaulle 's margin of victory in the referendum of 28 October 1962 was less impressive than he had hoped for : only sixty-two per cent of those who voted approved the change .
15 He came out of the Harvester but it would have been nice if he 'd waited for there to be a gap in the traffic .
16 This is going to be an interesting meeting , Alan says it will be over by two thirty because he 's organized for some training to happen then on er disciplinary issues .
17 The Attorney General , Eligio Hernández , appealed to the High Court against the search warrant , and said in a statement on Nov. 19 that he had applied for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of Judge Marino Barbero 's actions .
18 Close to , he looked less mad than he had done for ages ; just drawn , pale , weary .
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