Example sentences of "had [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Devonport 's plan is to use land Rosyth had intended for a new £267 million Trident refitting facility for the oil tanker work . |
| 2 | The Head Gardener , Andrew King , had arranged for a local woodcarver , Dave Meekes , to be on spot to craft the wood into bowls as the tree was sawn up by a team of tree surgeons . |
| 3 | M. Denny , one of the organising committee , had arranged for the Olympic cricket match to be played at the Velodrome de Vincennes , still in use today . |
| 4 | This was quite an achievement as there were many well-known archers at the meeting — the captain had arranged for the northern championship meeting to be held at the same venue on the three days prior to the Scorton shoot . |
| 5 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 6 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 7 | Its close links with the English cathedrals had to wait for the Norman reorganization , which first made possible in England an absenteeism and pluralism on the German model . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 9 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 10 | Klaasen 's contention that ‘ the only integration that has gone on so far has been among the top officials ’ seemed to be borne out by the fact that we had to wait for the penultimate game of the tours to seen the first nonwhite player take the field . |
| 11 | So we had to wait for the next bus , which was six o'clock . |
| 12 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |
| 13 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 14 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 15 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 16 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 17 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 18 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 19 | He was reminded of the statements of the stableman who had joined him for a drink at the Bull , situated at the end of Cross Street , and of the café owner where he had stopped for a fried breakfast . |
| 20 | The low fertility families in social class III had courted for a long time , decided carefully about marriage , moved house seldom , and tended to be upwardly mobile in their jobs . |
| 21 | Although before the election Meciar had pressed for a separate currency and central bank , he acknowledged in an interview with Le Monde published on July 7 that Slovakia was " not yet ready " for this . |
| 22 | Although before the election Meciar had pressed for a separate currency and central bank , he acknowledged in an interview with Le Monde published on July 7 that Slovakia was " not yet ready " for this . |
| 23 | This represented a major concession on the part of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) delegation , led by Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , which had pressed for a first-past-the-post system . |
| 24 | John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , had pressed for the proposed penalties , a six-month jail sentence or a fine of up to £1,000 , to be increased . |
| 25 | The UK government had pressed for an earlier start . |
| 26 | Bush had pressed for an unconditional renewal of MFN status , but after intensive congressional pressure Bush agreed to take " strong action " if China did not lower import tariffs , end illegal textile shipments via third countries , and strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights . |
| 27 | She promptly spread it around London that Lipman had fallen for a wrinkled depressive called Eve . |
| 28 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 29 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 30 | He preferred to drink — ignoring the landlord 's porter — from his silver flask , which he had substituted for the broken glass of brandy . |