Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd hoped for personal service , ’ said Giles . |
| 2 | She looked me up and down and adjusted my tie an inch or so ( I 'd gone for green silk and I now had two ties ) , then said : |
| 3 | I wear them most of the time , otherwise I 'd arrested for indecent exposure |
| 4 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 5 | I 've worked for German Intelligence twice in this war . |
| 6 | Yes , I have changed insurance companies and , yes , I have asked for written confirmation of cover . |
| 7 | I have worked for Christian Aid , the ecumenical aid and development agency of the Protestant churches in the UK and Ireland , for seven years as Co-ordinator in the North West of England . |
| 8 | I 'll tell him who you are , and what you 've done for Russian art , etc . |
| 9 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 10 | Now you have to pay for unsolicited restoration |
| 11 | Your success could be resented by others , which may mean that you have to fight for dear life to hang on to what you 've got , or there will be little time to enjoy your personal or social life . |
| 12 | Smith , in India to watch both the Madras match and Friday 's final Test at Bombay said : ‘ One of the big reasons we have gone for four-day championship cricket is that it will encourage spinners to play a bigger part in our domestic game . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We have applied for charitable status and we have come up with a slogan , Only Together We Can Win . ’ |
| 14 | And in that figure I 've just given you we have allowed for extra provision in some cases like for the national curriculum in the education sector , additional spending for under fives and taking on board the requirements in Social Services for care in the community and the children 's bill , although those have been , of course — the care in the community proposals have now been delayed and they are being phased in over three years . |
| 15 | They had embraced for mutual comfort . |
| 16 | Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all-out strike action . |
| 17 | Those who had a reasonable chance of survival received an allowance from the health department of the local authority , but those incurables who needed financial help were made aware of their grim prospects because they had to apply for public assistance instead . |
| 18 | Animals can not make a living so simply , ; not being able to photosynthesize , they have to hunt for prepackaged food , either directly by eating plants or indirectly by eating the animals that have eaten the plants . |
| 19 | He has prepared for civilian life by going on a butcher 's course . |
| 20 | He has worked for pharmaceutical company Pfizer , National Bank of Angola and on collaborative projects for the World Bank and is now representing Banco Espirito Santo in Luanda . |
| 21 | Queen Mary 's Hospital at Sidcup has cancelled all waiting-list surgery for ‘ at least ’ five weeks after more patients than planned were treated in the first five months , producing a £205,000 overspend on top of £200,000 it has to find for under-funded pay awards and other pressures . |
| 22 | This time it has circulated for public comment drafts of five documents . |
| 23 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 24 | The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid . |
| 25 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |
| 26 | A great mimic , he had developed for English society an accent which outclassed the Brits around him . |
| 27 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |