Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had no religion for a start , though I had developed respect for the Church through knowing Monsignor . |
| 2 | The viability of the buy-back option was thought to be dependent on the availability of new loans especially from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , both of which had expressed support for the agreement , and also from the Japanese Export-Import Bank and the Spanish government . |
| 3 | The report added that participants had emphasised the significance of the exchange of military information , which had taken place for the first time in Vienna in mid-April , as " one of the key links in the development of a confidence-building and security system in Europe " . |
| 4 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 5 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 6 | Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent . |
| 7 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 8 | The Belorussian president , Nikolai Dementei , who had expressed support for the coup , resigned on 25 August , and the republican parliament voted shortly afterwards in favour of the ‘ political and economic independence of Belorussia ’ . |
| 9 | Byelorussia 's President , Nikolai Dementei , who had expressed support for the coup , resigned on Aug. 25 , and the Supreme Soviet voted to declare " the political and economic independence of Byelorussia " . |
| 10 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 11 | Those who had obtained tickets for the December train have been offered a straight transfer for February 5th . |
| 12 | Ottavio Rinuccini , who had written verses for the ladies of Ferrara , was one of the poets . |
| 13 | Near his Chalk Farm flat was an entrée to another social scene , the world of the small magazines , of Pete Brown , Mal Dean — who had done design for the first It and Robins was drawn towards it . |
| 14 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 15 | He ruled that Kylie , who had refused permission for the video when approached by |
| 16 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 17 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 18 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 19 | ‘ We had to draw straws for the food we had . ’ |
| 20 | We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town . |
| 21 | He explained that they had made plans for the evening and politely invited Modigliani to join them . |
| 22 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 23 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 24 | Another student Siobhan O'Reilly , who was also in the lift , said that they had pressed buttons for the fourth and tenth floors before it became stuck . |
| 25 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 26 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |
| 27 | The Iranian government had claimed that they had supplied information for the UN report on human rights in Iran , published in February , which noted the continuing use of torture and other abuses . |
| 28 | The government was , also , committed to a private sector as , in its manifesto , it had pledged support for the small businessman , of whom there were many in Chile . |
| 29 | It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me . |
| 30 | While Cambridge had offered little concession to seminar teaching , it had allowed space for the introduction of a plurality of critical approaches and methodology . |