Example sentences of "[Wh det] they have [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Customs men raided Timbmet 's yard at Bicester this afternoon … impounding twenty-four tons of Allerce … a Chilean hardwood which they 've had for sale on their books since nineteen ninty .
2 It worries Thailand that the bombers were carrying air tickets to take them back to Bangkok , which they had left for Manila in December .
3 As we show on page 10 , brewers are refusing to pay for urgent repairs to their tenanted pubs which they have earmarked for conversion to leases because new leaseholders will have to carry that burden when they take over .
4 Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ?
5 After the stridency and aggression of the school , the hate-mail , she was happy to find her temporary asylum in this gentle household where voices were never raised , where no one obsessively analysed her every sentence in the hope of detecting racist , sexist or fascist undertones , where words meant what they had meant for generations , where obscenities were unknown or at least unspoken , where there was the grace of good order symbolized for her in Mr Copley 's reading of the Church 's daily offices , Morning Prayer and Evensong .
6 Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks .
7 But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon .
8 The difference lies not in ideology , nor in what they have to offer for exchange , but in their unequal vulnerability to the disapproval of the United States , the IMF and the World Bank .
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