Example sentences of "had [verb] his [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for himself , he was sorry she was upset — and also , if he was honest , a little irritated too , because the crisis had wrecked his plans for the morning . |
| 2 | The Grand Bazaar on 19th–21st November 1891 realised over £6,000 — much more than Agnew had hoped for , and by the end of 1892 , Agnew had met his target for the Building Fund , and work commenced on the new Institute . |
| 3 | On Jan. 2 the body of 17-year-old Andrés Arturo Gutiérrez Maya , who had confessed his responsibility for the March 1990 murder of Bernardo Jaramillo Ossa , the presidential candidate of the left-wing Patriotic Union party ( UP ) [ see p. 37312 ] , was found , along with that of his father , in an abandoned car in Medellín . |
| 4 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 5 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 6 | Recalling what he knew of the ardours and achievements of Freeborn 's forty odd years in the Forensic Science Service , the difficult war years , the delayed retirement , the last five years when he had exchanged his directorship for the frustrations of bureaucracy , Dalgliesh said : |
| 7 | Among some fine town houses are Moray House , built after James VI had abandoned his capital for the greater adulation of London but when a Scottish parliament still endeavoured to preserve its autonomy in Edinburgh ; and relics of ancient inns more accessible to coaching traffic than those in the congested upper reaches . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the haulier had to endorse his receipt for the electronic goods ‘ items under order number 7532 missing ’ . |
| 9 | Only later did it emerge that the Germans had supported his candidature for the post of High Commissioner in Danzig , and that he had since 1920 been on very friendly terms with Baron Ernst von Wiesäker , the head of the political section of the German Foreign Office . |
| 10 | It was infuriating that she should need this arrogant cynic who only had to snap his fingers for the world to leap to attention , anxious to please . |
| 11 | After the Englishman had taken his tally for the season to 14 , Hibs mounted a spirited fightback . |
| 12 | After the Englishman had taken his tally for the season to 14 , Hibs mounted a spirited fightback . |
| 13 | William " Stanley " Usher , who had been elected in September 1989 as an opposition UDP representative , was expelled from the party on Dec. 13 , 1989 , and joined the ruling PUP ; he had signalled his support for the PUP immediately after the general election . |
| 14 | Prior to the Alma Ata meeting , Kazakhstan 's President Nazarbayev had expressed his preference for the name " Eurasian Commonwealth of Independent States " for the new body . |
| 15 | The WEA could take some comfort from the presence among the remaining six on the committee of Alan Bullock , who had expressed his sympathies for the movement in the previous year 's Highway , and of G. B. Thorneycroft of the General Council of the TUC . |