Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1970s the police were often concerned with the need to keep apart two rival groups , each of which had gathered together for a demonstration in the same place and at the same time . |
| 2 | Writer Brad Darrach , who had flown down for an interview with Hopper , described the scene that developed : ‘ By mid-afternoon , the games became serious . |
| 3 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 4 | Delegates from the United States had lobbied hard for the ICIFI to be affiliated . |
| 5 | Yes he had booked there for a week , I think it was for a business meeting with Mr Sandy , that 's all I know . |
| 6 | Being an MP still carried some weight ; he was PPS to a powerful minister at Defence , and the threat of the General Election had rolled away for the time being : he was someone to heed . |
| 7 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 8 | He had come in for a book of stamps , and when he had got it he joined Breeze , who was waiting on the Green . |
| 9 | If the literary establishment had thought to compare notes they would have realized that every male aura on and off Fleet Street had come in for a bashing . |
| 10 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 11 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 12 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 13 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |
| 14 | She led the way into the communal hall which she personally had taken upon herself to brighten up with a vase of dried flowers and a couple of good , but ancient , rugs which she had picked up for a song at an auction sale . |
| 15 | After Arnold died , Nancy , feeling more strongly than ever what she had always known , that he was the only man she had loved , came to live permanently in the house where he had always seemed happiest , a piece of property he had picked up for a song in the sixties from Barone Dulcibene 's father-in-law , old Count Umberto Baderini . |
| 16 | Earlier in the day he had searched anxiously for a tape of Whitney Houston doing ‘ The Greatest Love of All ’ , a song written especially for Ali years ago . |
| 17 | Mildred slid him carefully into her pocket and raced up the stairs to her room , where she transferred him to a small box with holes in the lid which she had prepared specially for the journey . |
| 18 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 19 | Kirov fell silent , knowing that he had said enough for the time being . |
| 20 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 21 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 22 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 23 | The town 's magistrates were told that tension had built up for a year after a decision to dissolve the partnership . |
| 24 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 25 | WORKERS at a tyre fitting depot had closed early for a Hogmanay heroin party , the High Court in Aberdeen heard yesterday . |
| 26 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 27 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 28 | The BJP and its allies among militant Hindu organizations had called repeatedly for the mosque at Ayodhya to be replaced by a temple honouring the Hindu deity , Lord Ram [ see pp. 37854 ; 37964 ; 38532 ; 38682 ; 38866 ; 39008 ; 39193-94 ] . |
| 29 | Labour had called repeatedly for an emergency employment package aimed at providing work , training , assistance with job search and paying the proper rate for the job , he said . |
| 30 | Duncan was dug in at the bottom of the orchard and had called in for a chat on his way from Brigade H.Q He was very interested in bagpipe music , having served with the Gordon Highlanders before joining the Commandos . |