Example sentences of "who had [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 2 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 3 | In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company . |
| 4 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 5 | Hundreds of trippers who had paid for a front-row seat in a grandstand overlooking the departing flotilla left in anger when they were told the scaffolding viewpoint was potentially unsafe and would not be used . |
| 6 | The only souls who escaped her torments were those who were pure in thought or who had died for a noble cause . |
| 7 | The seat had been held since the 1990 general election by Miklós Németh , Hungary 's last Prime Minister under the transitional communist regime in 1988-90 , who had left for a new career as vice-president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development . |