Example sentences of "he had [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was er fairly evident that he had given permission for the three British hostages to be released after Sir Edward Heath 's meeting with Tariq . |
| 2 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 3 | It was like he had discovered sex for the first time , ’ said a friend . |
| 4 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 5 | He had climbed trees for the blue hawk 's nest , and knew its eggs and their markings ; the hawfinch , that parrot of the woods with its strange cry and saucer nest , was common in his time . |
| 6 | It was held that the arrangements constituted a settlement of which the taxpayer was a settlor , that he had provided income for the purposes of the settlement and the income was assessable on him under what is now TA 1988 , s663 . |
| 7 | When the priest was searched it was found that he was carrying his will , and that he had left money for the restoration fund . |
| 8 | The texts are not very clear on this , but the main question is whether a third party in good faith would be secure from the missio only if he had paid value for the object under trust . |
| 9 | In September 1980 he had paid £65,000 for the British rights to the release of the first solo record by Phil Collins , the drummer from Genesis . |