Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lessons have been learned , but conservationists have long campaigned for a rethink . |
| 2 | You , Prime Minister Calfa and Labour Minister Miller have all called for a type of social contract in this transition period . |
| 3 | The Dart Valley Light Railway plc have , therefore , decided on a new policy for the future which it feels will keep faith with the Volunteer Association Members who are keen to develop and maintain the Buckfast-Totnes line as a typical GWR branch line operating as a non-profit making charitable trust and at the same time to satisfy its shareholders who have patiently waited for a dividend for many years . |
| 4 | Groups demanding an autonomous Sikh state have already called for a boycott of the elections . |
| 5 | The chub take slugs absolutely savagely , as though they have not fed for a week and their very lives depend on seizing that particular specimen . |
| 6 | ‘ I have not suggested for a moment that I regard all humanity as rotten , ’ George said icily . |
| 7 | To presuppose this is both contradictory and dangerous ; contradictory because the West can not insist on a certain outcome from free elections and still uphold democracy ; dangerous because , if the confusion of the two in the public mind persists , there will be many more instances of superpowers subverting elected governments because they have not opted for a market economy . |
| 8 | But you may think me merely biased if I say that my own father could in many ways be considered to rank with such men , and that his career is the one I have always scrutinized for a definition of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 9 | Cardinal Basil Hume and Bishop Patrick Kelly have both called for a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the past few days . |
| 10 | CARDINAL Basil Hume and Bishop Patrick Kelly have both called for a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the past few days . |
| 11 | Broadly , Wendler 's argument is that these four factors have favourably intersected for a sub-set of technologies — Unix , C and TCP/IP — in large — scientific , engineering , government and education — but niche markets . |
| 12 | My local primary has , in fact , at least done that in the last year , and we have n't opted out , and secondly you will remember the article in the Guardian from thirteenth of November — thirteenth of November last year — Hull Grammar School , which was one of the first ones that went independent erm have now applied for an administration order which gives them breathing space before winding up petitions can be launched . |
| 13 | I have n't arranged for a secondary . |
| 14 | I have n't eaten for a week . |
| 15 | Landing with obstructions on the upwind side is particularly dangerous and is just the sort of error people tend to make when they have n't flown for a while . |
| 16 | Very busy I have n't stopped for a second . |
| 17 | No , I have n't done for a while see I |
| 18 | Now erm getting to those words yourself instead , I 'm sorry , things we have n't done for a week or two lots of word they 'll be lots of them in the exam I 'm telling you . |
| 19 | Many of the girls have n't played for a while . |
| 20 | Girls at the back of the room , we have n't come for a chat . |
| 21 | He has become a famous dramatist , and the two brothers have n't spoken for a decade , as Alfred feels Michael has betrayed the family by travestying them in his plays . |
| 22 | When using a rewarding strategy , it is important to make it quite plain to children that they will not be rewarded if they have previously asked for a reward ( 'Mummy , if I do my homework can I stay up late ? ' ) and to apply this rule rigorously . |
| 23 | ‘ I told you once , cara , I have never paid for a woman . ’ |
| 24 | The mothers have publicly denounced the ‘ disappearances ’ and have actively campaigned for an investigation . |