Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [to-vb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 2 | But the Prime Minister 's account of his own conversation at the palace earlier that morning reveals that the King had already determined to try for a National Government headed by MacDonald . |
| 3 | In fact , this was the only spectacle which Mrs Goreng had not had to contrive for the benefit of her guests . |
| 4 | A hangover from Lyn 's childhood , a mother who cleaned at Chesney Hall , a father at Cartwright-Cageby 's was to feel respect that had once amounted to awe for the professional man . |
| 5 | Was that the reason she had n't said to watch for the noticeboard ? |
| 6 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |