Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 2 | The proposals were received coolly by the African National Congress ( ANC ) whose deputy president , Nelson Mandela , warned that the time had not yet come for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 3 | Nonconformity 's dependence on laissez faire and , in the case of Methodism , on competition among five separate bodies , had not always worked for the best and there had been a lot of wasted effort . |
| 4 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 5 | Surely she had n't almost fallen for the oldest trick in the book ! |