Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 2 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 3 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 4 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 5 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |
| 6 | Joanne spoke with the same contempt Jacqui had shown for the high achievements of forensic science . |
| 7 | Eventually , Maryport Council had to apply for a special nuclear waste disposal licence from the Department of the Environment so that it could legally dump the silt back in the sea again . |
| 8 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 9 | It was to be based on a report which the plaintiff had prepared for the Greek Government . |
| 10 | this was the day that members of our group had set for a sponsored walk , the length of the old Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 11 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 12 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |
| 13 | One evening Finck proclaimed that a piece of music that Tiller had composed for a skipping-rope routine was dull and lifeless and that neither he nor the Girls could do a thing with it . |
| 14 | On 22 July , the Water Authority had admitted for the first time that aluminium had been involved by placing a small advertisement in the local press saying ‘ that the water was no more acidic than lemon juice ’ . |
| 15 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 16 | Although before the election Meciar had pressed for a separate currency and central bank , he acknowledged in an interview with Le Monde published on July 7 that Slovakia was " not yet ready " for this . |
| 17 | Although before the election Meciar had pressed for a separate currency and central bank , he acknowledged in an interview with Le Monde published on July 7 that Slovakia was " not yet ready " for this . |
| 18 | While still at school Widgery had written for a short-lived national schools magazine , which rapidly collapsed . |
| 19 | A Dorset family was taken on a VIP trip to Wytch Farm 's production sites on Furzey Island after the father had bid for the BP-donated prize in a charity auction . |
| 20 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 21 | The train had halted for a full five minutes on the western side of West Acton and all that time Dean had been lying on the roof in the rain . |
| 22 | This was quite an achievement as there were many well-known archers at the meeting — the captain had arranged for the northern championship meeting to be held at the same venue on the three days prior to the Scorton shoot . |
| 23 | According to the Peruvian press , however , the budget bill had allowed for a 300 per cent increase in Fujimori 's own salary and for a 17-fold increase in spending by the presidential office . |
| 24 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |
| 25 | The UK government had pressed for an earlier start . |
| 26 | The only change in the intervening period had been that the government had prepared for the threatened dispute while the Samuel Commission deliberated about the way in which to make the industry more efficient and profitable . |
| 27 | On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] . |
| 28 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 29 | Indeed , the Home Secretary , Mr Leon Brittan , took great pride in the fact that , unlike any of its predecessors , the Conservative Government had provided for the first time a clear and comprehensive statutory framework for the interception of communications . |
| 30 | By 23 May the Federation had called for a complete stoppage of all port transport workers in London and on the river Medway , including , of course , seamen . |