Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] [noun pl] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , instead , the tax payers had sold their shares for a larger amount , sufficient to enable them to repay the loans , they are likely to have been personally better off , because of indexation allowance to reduce the additional gain deriving from the sale of the shares , and because they would not have suffered an income tax charge under either ss421 or 160 . |
| 2 | Benjamin looked in desperation at the gatehouse of St Bartholomew 's Priory : the balcony was already full of important , well-dressed people who had brought their children for a day out ; they had also brought sugared apples , dishes of marzipan and jugs of wine to make their enjoyment complete . |
| 3 | He also announced that in its referendum campaign the CP would be working with the neo-fascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement ( AWB ) which had reversed its plans for a boycott of the vote . |
| 4 | Jane had removed her specs for a short myopic rest , but now put them on again , quickly . |
| 5 | I climbed hesitantly , feeling clumsy as the tame macaw which that morning had taken my fingernails for a bunch of nuts . |