Example sentences of "had [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She promptly spread it around London that Lipman had fallen for a wrinkled depressive called Eve . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He preferred to drink — ignoring the landlord 's porter — from his silver flask , which he had substituted for the broken glass of brandy . |
| 21 | Grey Egerton , describing in 1852 a fossil fish which he had lithographed for the Geological Survey , could take a more cheerful view , calling it a ‘ pretty little specimen ’ . |
| 22 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 23 | The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years . |
| 24 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 25 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 26 | By this time , according to Dyos and Aldcroft , most of the potential for river improvement had been exhausted and the time had come for the deliberate making of waterways , a step which , though it was a natural development from a learning process on the rivers , was yet one of great import . |
| 27 | Now that the time had come for the depleted garrison to shrink back inside the new fortifications , accommodation had to be found for the ladies displaced from Dr Dunstaple 's house . |
| 28 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 29 | The Attorney General , Eligio Hernández , appealed to the High Court against the search warrant , and said in a statement on Nov. 19 that he had applied for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of Judge Marino Barbero 's actions . |
| 30 | The only change in the intervening period had been that the government had prepared for the threatened dispute while the Samuel Commission deliberated about the way in which to make the industry more efficient and profitable . |