Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the 1987 pay deal , Mr Hougham had sought to win agreement for the introduction of temporary workers to cope with seasonal variation in demand , the establishment of quality discussion groups and moves to have skilled men working on the production line . |
| 2 | Before she swallowed the last of the drink she had promised to ask Wickham for the facts . |
| 3 | 281 had added to the protected class a case in which vulnerable elderly parents had agreed to provide security for the debts of their adult son . |
| 4 | As such , he had shown unflagging support for the Axis cause . |
| 5 | Chemists had attempted to synthesize quinine for the previous hundred years ( see Chapter 2 ) but all they had achieved was to discover the extreme complexity of the problem . |
| 6 | Although in 1927 Barbusse had attended the First Congress of Proletarian Writers held in Moscow , and although he had appeared to voice support for the new policy of subordinating the literary process to the construction of socialism , his actual writing practice was completely out of step with the doctrinaire ideas of RAPP . |
| 7 | The white frilly aprons and mob caps clearly labelled those who had elected to become servants for the afternoon ; less easily identifiable were the spiv I 'd spotted earlier — with his slicked-back , Brylcreemed hair and sneer of a moustache — and the vampish creature dressed in black taffeta adorned with diamanté who had looked me up and down disdainfully . |