Example sentences of "had [verb] for a [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She promptly spread it around London that Lipman had fallen for a wrinkled depressive called Eve . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But many Americans thought the time had come for a political change to the safer conservatism of the Republican Party . |
| 13 | The time had come for a deaf person to occupy it and Hudson 's chairmanship therefore lasted only three years . |
| 14 | Everyone had come for a good time , and they did not want it spoiling by some wildmen . |
| 15 | These architects fervently felt that the time had come for a new type of public building . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 19 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 20 | At first he felt more relaxed than he had done for a long time . |
| 21 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 22 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 23 | Scientists on both sides of the Atlantic have said that the so-called ‘ Concorde ’ trial confirms what many had felt for a long time , namely that AZT taken on its own is likely to be limited in delaying the onset of AIDS . |
| 24 | During the conference Iraq , supported by Libya , had argued for a minimum reference price of $25 a barrel . |
| 25 | While many , including the majority of the Barclay Committee ( 1982 ) , had argued for a unified view of the social work enterprise , Nottinghamshire social services department had taken the unusual decision to separate out elements of the social work role for essentially practical reasons . |
| 26 | In this document , Mosley had argued for a managed currency rather than the return to the gold standard at pre-war parity as the basis of economic policy , for nationalization of the banks , the establishment of consumer credits to supplement working-class purchasing power , the development of an Economic Council to plan production , and the setting up of a mechanism to check that money supply was equated to production potential . |
| 27 | The only souls who escaped her torments were those who were pure in thought or who had died for a noble cause . |
| 28 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 29 | So we decided we had to look for a new singer . |
| 30 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |