Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 2 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 3 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 4 | But I know you said there was a big erm tariff against it , but on the other hand they do get a lot of more benefits from it , like er well , the erm the price that 's paid for a lot more , and , and it gives a lot more employment . |
| 5 | I have to say , myself , you know I feel one of the worst thing you can call a man in the English language is a term that 's used for a women 's genitalia . |
| 6 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 7 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 8 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 9 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 10 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 11 | He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters . |
| 12 | The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) . |
| 13 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 14 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 15 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 16 | They are opposed to any implicit encouragement of companies who currently import non-sustainable supplies , and have called for a boycott of leading UK " D-I-Y " stores [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 17 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 18 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 19 | Each religion developed its own particular insight , but had to cater for a number of different needs : if you were born in India , for example , you were likely to be either a Buddhist or a Hindu . |
| 20 | Union members picketed the Torbay Hotel , cutting off fuel oil supplies , and later , when the manager of the plaintiff hotel was reported as having called for a stand against the union , picketed that hotel with the same result . |
| 21 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |