Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 2 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 3 | They 've asked for a third . |
| 4 | They 've asked for a third of what |
| 5 | It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings . |
| 6 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 7 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 8 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 9 | Michelle was the only one on duty there , but she put down the latest James Herbert long enough to tell me that yes , they had sent for an Airborne messenger just after eleven , and that Anna kept asking if I 'd called . |
| 10 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 11 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 12 | They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time . |
| 13 | I did , and they , oh Chris erm happened to notice that they have charged for a new phone that I have n't got . |
| 14 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 15 | Last year we recruited almost 300 school leavers onto our Retail Training Scheme [ RTS ] , through which they have studied for a National Vocational Qualification [ NVQ ] certificate . |