Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 2 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |
| 3 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 4 | It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year . |
| 5 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 6 | Kerry , president of the Committee for the Search of American Servicemen Missing in Action , had long pressed for a lifting of the US trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 7 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 8 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 9 | GARY Huntingdon , the Lib-Dem 's man in Sedgefield , had just arrived for a spot of canvassing in Chilton when he spotted four attractive women and two young children walking down the street . |
| 10 | Besides , she had always hankered for a job in uniform . |
| 11 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 12 | It was this book that Rincewind had once opened for a bet . |
| 13 | In November 1990 , rather than seek re-election , she had unsuccessfully challenged for a Senate seat , running against the incumbent Democrat Paul Simon . |
| 14 | The boy 's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order . |
| 15 | I had also asked for a chair-lift and a motorised wheelchair , which have not arrived . |
| 16 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 17 | During November former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had repeatedly called for a referendum before the UK agreed to join moves to introduce a single currency , and the debate further highlighted the divisions within the Conservative Party in its approach to Europe , although Thatcher after the summit reportedly professed herself to be impressed by Major 's performance there . |
| 18 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 19 | Within minutes of Cantona signing for United last week , sources at Leeds revealed that he had twice asked for a move , and stormed out of Elland Road only days before his £1.2 million transfer . |
| 20 | It may be that Taylor had again asked for a reduction of Royalty . |
| 21 | A friend of 30 years standing who had previously cared for a woman with senile dementia described how : |
| 22 | The administration had instead settled for a policy of " holding the line " , which basically meant the continuation of containment . |
| 23 | There a chemist who had recently worked for a company involved in the manufacture of submarine telephone cables recognised its similarity to gutta percha — the material used to sheathe such cables . |