Example sentences of "have [verb] for a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has told the local Home Care Organiser about Mrs B and the Organiser has arranged for a Home Help for the old lady , and is now arranging for the Community Laundry Service to be provided . |
| 2 | It 's the least I can do for one who has come for a bush walk and then finds the project nipped in the bud by her own willingness to help . ’ |
| 3 | That family has applied for a renovation grant on an old building . |
| 4 | A family has called for a school nurse to be sacked after she failed to spot that their son had a broken arm . |
| 5 | , Animaline , a British animal-welfare organization , has called for a tourist boycott of Malta , to persuade that country to ban the shooting of migratory and native wild birds , hundreds of thousands of which are killed every year for sport . |
| 6 | He would have liked a more advanced drawing course , but as that is not on offer has settled for a painting course . |
| 7 | FACED with a choice between Shildon and Stockholm , the redoubtable Charlie Thomas has opted for a home fixture . |
| 8 | For example , because LOEX only acquires one or two copies of each item of user education material from depositors , and because it is a nationwide service , it has opted for a loan system , with no material for retention . |
| 9 | The news that the Secretary of State for Scotland has asked for a feasibility study to investigate the need for a second Forth road bridge is unwelcome and merely confirms that the Scottish Office lacks a viable , long-term strategy for transport . |
| 10 | Clinical R&D represents a key area in the development programme for pharmaceutical products and , with almost 1200 staff distributed internationally , a new position has arisen for a Training Co-ordinator to focus technical training activity in this area on a worldwide basis . |
| 11 | In particular it has paid for a text telephone — or ‘ minicom ’ — for the delivery suite . |
| 12 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 13 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 14 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 15 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 16 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 17 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ If they thought the children were in danger they should have gone for a care order in the first place , ’ Levy said . |
| 19 | Overturning this residence order the Appeal Court was clear Nottinghamshire SSD should have used the Act 's public law provisions from the outset — it should have gone for a care order or a supervision order , enabling social workers to oversee the children 's welfare . |
| 20 | Will the Minister therefore announce a concession : that all old age pensioners should be given the right to watch television without having to pay for a television licence ? |
| 21 | ( having groped for a light switch ) |
| 22 | In 1987 I worked with a chief inspector who had just returned from university having read for a Bramshill scholarship in what he called ‘ black letter law ’ . |
| 23 | In the latest incident , on July 10 , six policemen , part of an allegedly drunken patrol , were arrested and charged with the murder of 17 passengers after shooting down a civilian aircraft , which they claimed to have mistaken for a drug smuggling plane , as it took off from Bellavista , 800 km to the north-west of the capital Lima . |
| 24 | ‘ Elaine said she had to go for a blood test . |
| 25 | Until yesterday this was the nearest Mike Cratchley thought he was going to get to the chateau he had booked for a group holiday this summer . |
| 26 | It was the third time the hospital had applied for a government grant for the unit . |
| 27 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 28 | Iran , meanwhile , had argued for a compromise price of $23 a barrel . |
| 29 | But first they had to look for a camp site so Mr was the chief engineer I was employed by him , to have a look round and we discovered Lyness farm to be a suitable place . |
| 30 | In February , a group of deputies , led by Marko Voljc , who was said to be a candidate for a post in the new government , had called for a no confidence vote against the government . |