Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it has come in for a certain amount of criticism , it has also attracted much praise , especially from industry . |
| 2 | Understandably , this presumption has come in for a great deal of criticism . |
| 3 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 4 | David Porter , MP for Waveney , has called consistently for a national body to have overall responsibility for sea defences . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , West Ham defender Julian Dicks has revved up for a big-match return tonight — thanks to a £10,000 Harley Davidson . |
| 6 | Speedy 's lay-off Thomson collides the Forest man Gemmell and the whistle has gone eventually for a free kick to Forest . |
| 7 | ‘ Your Mummy has gone away for a long time ’ usually only serves to leave the child frightened but feeling the anxiety of the adults all around which forbids further discussion . |
| 8 | Some fudge the issue by saying that the grandparent has gone away for a little while . |
| 9 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 10 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 11 | A forty year old airliner that seats just fourteen passengers has taken off for a new lease of life in Australia . |
| 12 | West Indian pace bowler Ken McLeod has signed up for a second stint at Synthonia after being absent from the league for three years . |
| 13 | Reed has signed up for a further period of seven years to publish the back list of John Steinbeck , after submitting a lavish brochure of marketing plans to the estate . |
| 14 | Does any hon. Member seriously think that , after Britain has signed up for a single currency , we could go to war on our own and expect the 11 countries who share the same currency to stand idly by and see the value of their currency wrecked , for ever depreciating , just because Britain was in one of its periodic warmongering fits ? |
| 15 | A Mum and Dad who 'd known vaguely for a long time that Conor liked holding parties were suddenly being told over cups of tea and Hobnobs about vast acid house raves in the middle of fields , about police chases across whole counties , about an entire organisation that Conor had run ( Conor had run an organisation ? ) , which could call a party and have 5,000 people turning up at £20 a ticket within 48 hours . |
| 16 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 17 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 18 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 19 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 20 | It felt strange — no , it felt right that we should all know each other , as it were automatically : we , who had gathered here for a preternatural purpose . |
| 21 | It also seemed , from the feathers on the kitchen floor , that one of the pigeons had come down for a warm and had got too close . |
| 22 | Dexter had seethed silently for a few weeks and mentioned his anger to a priest during confession . |
| 23 | He coveted the throne and had done so for a long time . |
| 24 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 25 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 26 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 27 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 28 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 29 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 30 | He went quickly downstairs and left a note for his mother saying that he could n't sleep and had gone out for an early morning bike ride . |