Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] have [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 2 | Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe . |
| 3 | Money was a problem because I 'd spent all the dosh I 'd got for the car , and I needed my grant to pay off the overdraft I 'd built up . |
| 4 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 5 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 6 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 7 | But we could n't resist quoting captain Martyn Moxon at length in a piece he has penned for the club . |
| 8 | Not only is the seat he has held for the past 15 years , in the Yvelines to the west of Paris , now under serious threat , but so too is the whole political future and his dream of a new social democratic movement . |
| 9 | The Belgian Prime Minister Wilfried Martens announced on June 16 that the government had officially tied the franc to the D-Mark , formalizing the practice it had followed for the past four years . |
| 10 | After all , the Minister is always returning to the House to tell us what a wonderful deal he has got for the British farmer and consumer . |
| 11 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 12 | If I ca n't get promotion on the basis of all the hard work I 've done for the organisation over the last five years then I do n't know how I can get it . |
| 13 | Diana warmed to her theme as the letter , written on Kensington Palace notepaper , continued with her favourite lament — the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 14 | She consulted her own solicitor , and wrote back to Prince Philip in the same angry terms , stressing the work she had done for the Royal Family . |
| 15 | The Committee is very grateful to its Secretary , , not only for all the work she has done for the committee but also for her work for ethnic minority students seeking pupillage . |
| 16 | And we in turn thank her , for all the work she has done for the Society . |
| 17 | It is appropriate that , through the medium of Medau News , we should thank Rita very warmly indeed for all the dedicated work she has done for the Society . |
| 18 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 19 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 20 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 21 | The act he 'd devised for the Easter Fete was a black mass . |
| 22 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 23 | You lose the money you 've paid for the site ! |
| 24 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 25 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 26 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 27 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 28 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 29 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 30 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |