Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the Winchester Housing Trust and the St. Mary Church Association had had their plans for low cost housing in the village refused . |
| 2 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 3 | As for himself , he was sorry she was upset — and also , if he was honest , a little irritated too , because the crisis had wrecked his plans for the morning . |
| 4 | I climbed hesitantly , feeling clumsy as the tame macaw which that morning had taken my fingernails for a bunch of nuts . |
| 5 | Goose had haunted his dreams for ten days . |
| 6 | Though one would think not a morsel had passed her lips for months . |
| 7 | A convenient time , with the light fading , for all the brothers who were engaged in copying or reading had abandoned their books for the evening , leaving the prior to ensure that everything was decently replaced exactly where it should be . |
| 8 | The Strathclyde Firemaster , John Jameson , said at the scene of the tragedy that the family had lost their lives for the price of a £5 smoke alarm . |