Example sentences of "he had [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 2 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 3 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 4 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 5 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 6 | After what Tolonen had said to him earlier he had hoped for the appointment himself . |
| 7 | As for work , he had auditioned for the role of the Dauphin in Anouilh 's The Lark at the Lincoln Center , but he did not get the part . |
| 8 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 9 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 10 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 11 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 12 | Still half dazed by shock , lashed by rage and a deeper pain she told herself was grief for Edmund , Isabel forgot the fleeting moments when fitzAlan had shown her tenderness despite his suspicions , forgot that he had asked for the truth . |
| 13 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 14 | He had to settle for the seat at Sladen 's right hand , opposite the Assistant Secretary . |
| 15 | On 13 June 1627 Sir Miles Fleetwood reported to Secretary Conway that in pursuance of the ‘ great service ’ he had undertaken for the king ‘ in the disafforestation of several forests , which have been very chargeable and without profit or pleasure ’ , he had completed the disafforestment of the forest of Leicestershire . |
| 16 | He put one of their cocktail nuts into my mouth off a silver tray that he had balanced for the moment on the washbasin , and set himself to work on my mascara . |
| 17 | He had reached for the file of grey newspaper photographs . |
| 18 | He had reached for the Ruger as soon as he had seen the taxi pull up , and he had had the Ruger in his grip when the front door opposite had opened , and he had loosened the grip when he had seen that the target carried no cases , only had his daughters ’ hands in his . |
| 19 | This drove Norman to consider putting the reputation and earning power which he had developed for the company to his own use , and in 1982 he formed Norman Resources Limited . |
| 20 | In this revised and comforting version there had been a second of delay , no more , and then he had raced for the house shouting for help . |
| 21 | But when he was invited to play a piece of music he had composed for the Princess Royal to her when she visited Edinburgh , they rapidly found out . |
| 22 | Mr Roberts was thanked for all he had done for the Society since its inception . |
| 23 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 24 | Like Paul , he had trained for the law in youth , and it had left him with a certain accuracy . |
| 25 | John had ridden this route the previous year , before he had tendered for the contract . |
| 26 | After she changed the number , Coleman himself began to get similar calls at the apartment he had taken for the family in Palatine , a commuter train ride from the Boy Scouts ' office on Lake Street , Chicago , although these , too , stopped after he took the DIA 's advice and obtained an unlisted number . |
| 27 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 28 | Through Hoskyns he had come for the time under the influence of the leader of anti-rational European theology , Karl Barth , who at this moment was back in Basle after being expelled from Germany by the Nazis . |
| 29 | Nichols , watching this pantomime , quickly explained that this was the guy he had picked for the lead in The Graduate . |
| 30 | But by then Gerrard was facing George again , an expression of great seriousness replacing the wry look he had produced for the audience . |