Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |
| 2 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 3 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 4 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 7 | Those who had a reasonable chance of survival received an allowance from the health department of the local authority , but those incurables who needed financial help were made aware of their grim prospects because they had to apply for public assistance instead . |
| 8 | Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi . |