Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffiths , who has not played for a month because of a rib injury , watched Cardiff overwhelm London Welsh on Saturday and is expected to train with the club next week . |
| 2 | Andersson has not played for a month but trained with United for the first time yesterday and made an instant impression . |
| 3 | ‘ She has not spoken for a month . |
| 4 | The difference between the French and English approaches to making mustard , technology apart , has not changed for a century . |
| 5 | The waif-like screen star , who in recent years has devoted her energies to helping the world 's starving children , has just pleaded for a week of peace in Bosnia to enable food to get through to the children there . |
| 6 | He has already asked for a return match and when I have had a rest I shall try to accommodate him . ’ |
| 7 | ESA has already paid for a launch on Ariane , but it can transfer this money to cover the launch of the Giotto mission to Halley 's comet in 1985 . |
| 8 | He has also worked for a period , several years ago with the dye house production control at Templetons . |
| 9 | I understand that Mr Dever has provisionally arranged for a skip to be provided in Scorton from 31 March — 7 April . |
| 10 | The Health Department has now asked for a project proposal to be prepared as a basis for providing assistance to introduce the proposed changes during the year ahead . |
| 11 | The terms and conditions also address such grey areas such as what happens if the buyer has possession of a work , but has not completely paid for it when it is stolen ( the liability is the buyer 's ) , and the duty of such a buyer who has partially paid for a work , to store the work separately from his own goods , not to export it , to retain the seller 's identifying marks , and to allow the seller or his agent access to the work . |
| 12 | He has n't trained for a month and wo n't travel with the 18-man squad . |
| 13 | The kind of farcical spectacle pop has n't provided for a while , it had everything from Radio 1 getting in a tizzy about whether to ban it to TOTP carrying drug warnings , from ageing DJs singing along to the chorus to ageing rockers ( Francis Rossi of Status Quo ) crawling out of the woodwork to condemn it . |
| 14 | It is not difficult — though may be expensive — to hire a guide for a day ( or a week ) so that you find the best snow available at each time of the day and each season , whether it has n't snowed for a week or is blizzarding as you start the day . |
| 15 | Sometimes when Tuffers has been hit for four , he has immediately asked for a fielder to be moved to plug the gap . |
| 16 | ( That is why this journal has consistently argued for a redirection of commission funds towards basic research , for the sake of the skill it can in principle provide . ) |
| 17 | More recently the Hercules has again headed for a battle zone . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't ever , ’ and Donald took another breath , through his mouth this time , as if he 'd only surfaced for a moment , ‘ do n't EVER eat my beans again . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd already asked for a copy of the calendars of the Carmelite , Nicholas of Lyn . |
| 20 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 21 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 22 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 23 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |
| 24 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 25 | It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year . |
| 26 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 27 | Kerry , president of the Committee for the Search of American Servicemen Missing in Action , had long pressed for a lifting of the US trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 28 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 29 | It had not rained for a week and the white dust of the road started to dull the shine of all the shoes . |
| 30 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |