Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They had both hoped for a classic siege manoeuvre : a complete blockade of supplies , followed when the city was weak by an assault over ditches infilled by themselves , and preceded by feints , night attacks and heavy bombardment . |
| 32 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 33 | Throughout the rehearsals our choreographer , Geraldine Stephenson , had often pleaded for a larger space than the laundry in which to practise the swooping choreography she had devised . |
| 34 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 35 | " You do n't know what your talking about , " Katherine began , experiencing a deep burning rage that she had n't felt for a long time , a rage all the more intense because she knew she could do nothing about it . |
| 36 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 37 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 38 | I noticed how happy people were , which was something I had n't known for a long time . |
| 39 | A NATO emergency meeting had been held in Brussels on Aug. 3 , and the USA had reportedly pressed for a possible NATO " out-of-area " military response , a theme repeated when Bush and Thatcher met NATO secretary-general Manfred Wörner in Washington on Aug. 6 . |
| 40 | Before the election many UN officials had privately hoped for a close result . |
| 41 | Seawitch is obviously very special to you , and I 've never crewed for a world-famous yachtsman before . ’ |
| 42 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 43 | On the morning she was expected in the office for the signing ceremony , Stephen Navin , Virgin 's lawyer , telephoned the singer 's lawyers , only to learn that she had actually signed for a larger sum to CBS the day before . |
| 44 | First division sides receive around £13,500 Courage assistance , but Sudbury and Askeans have successfully called for a new look at the way the money is divided . |
| 45 | Environmentalists , who have long campaigned for a single agency , have expressed their concern that the plans for the reform of the Inspectorate amount to little more than political opportunism and will have little real impact . |
| 46 | At the same time it should be remembered that over the centuries , exiles and deportees have only accounted for a tiny fraction of the total population of Siberia , the vast majority of which was there as a result of voluntary emigration , fortune seeking or the process of natural procreation . |
| 47 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 48 | He may have been joking , but his fatalistic sentiment was in the sane vein as a cruel remark made as Davies 's men departed in triumph : ‘ We understood Eastbourne were the only team who have not applied for a postal vote in the General Election . ’ |
| 49 | So I I 'm extremely pleased that the County Council have not gone for a strategic exceptions policy . |
| 50 | ‘ Switzerland have not qualified for a major tournament since the 1966 World Cup finals and have grown used to losing . |
| 51 | Billig ( 1987a ) illustrates Taking the Side of the Other by examples where people , who have generally argued for a particular stance and against the counter-stance , seem to turn around and use the arguments of their former opponents : in this way , they take up the side of the other . |
| 52 | Thompson is the 4/9 favourite with William Hill to win the best actress Oscar , the shortest odds they have ever given for a British actress nominated for a prize . |
| 53 | We have also known for a long time that morphine cures diarrhoea . |
| 54 | Councillors have now called for a full investigation before any action is taken . |
| 55 | See , just after the last spate of dates , when they were bolstered by an extra guitarist from Attic Head , The Boos have now plumped for a classier kind of act altogether . |
| 56 | There are about 3,000 bears there and they could be a hazard if they come out of the dens and have n't eaten for a few months . ’ |
| 57 | Ah , now this is the one I have n't done for a long time , now this is the one |
| 58 | Oh well if you have n't had chi or have n't done for a long time you enjoy them . |
| 59 | Have n't done for a long time . |
| 60 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |