Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 2 | If it did n't , I thought re-reading had better keep for a rainy day . |
| 3 | However , the plaintiffs had also asked for a winding up order under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 4 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 5 | They had both hoped for a classic siege manoeuvre : a complete blockade of supplies , followed when the city was weak by an assault over ditches infilled by themselves , and preceded by feints , night attacks and heavy bombardment . |
| 6 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 7 | Throughout the rehearsals our choreographer , Geraldine Stephenson , had often pleaded for a larger space than the laundry in which to practise the swooping choreography she had devised . |
| 8 | A NATO emergency meeting had been held in Brussels on Aug. 3 , and the USA had reportedly pressed for a possible NATO " out-of-area " military response , a theme repeated when Bush and Thatcher met NATO secretary-general Manfred Wörner in Washington on Aug. 6 . |
| 9 | Before the election many UN officials had privately hoped for a close result . |
| 10 | All subjects studied were regular smokers but the duodenal ulcer patients were significantly older and had therefore smoked for a longer period ( Table I ) . |
| 11 | On the morning she was expected in the office for the signing ceremony , Stephen Navin , Virgin 's lawyer , telephoned the singer 's lawyers , only to learn that she had actually signed for a larger sum to CBS the day before . |