Example sentences of "and [noun] [pron] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 2 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 3 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 4 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 5 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 6 | Thieves made off with a cot mattress , pram and potty she had bought for the baby . |
| 7 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 8 | Following a period of wound-licking inactivity , Burns reemerged with a new outfit determined to combine the original SLF manifesto with a degree of maturity and sophistication they 'd striven for but never quite achieved . |
| 9 | I have collected this catalogue from the dozens of workshops and courses I have run for teachers on the subject of stress . |
| 10 | Tempers exploded at breakfast time after Rosemary and Carssier who had feuded for a month accidentally bumped into each other between two beds and their slanging match to violence when Rosemary shouted what you need is a man ! |
| 11 | That 's right , the record erm first half , you 've got Whittington who scored erm I think nearly on twenty goals and Clarke who 's played for Norther Ireland several times . |
| 12 | Magistrates and others who have called for more secure places want them to be used to contain the activities of young offenders who are not currently kept in prison accommodation , like so-called joyriders and repetitive burglars . |
| 13 | First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ? |
| 14 | She packed up the remains of the bread and cheese they had had for supper , and then watched as he clipped poles together and hammered in pegs ; within minutes the flimsy little structure was up and ready . |
| 15 | Shortly after reading that I was fascinated to come across Hugh Seton-Watson 's account , in a book written 44 years ago , of how in Eastern Europe between the wars the word ‘ Communist ’ had become popular with the poor subjects of largely dictatorial regimes because their rulers used it as a term of abuse against ‘ ordinary men and women who have asked for reforms , protested against bureaucratic abuse , or resisted the gendarmerie in the execution of some wanton brutality . ’ |
| 16 | The Minister must know that , when Conservative Members attack local authorities , they are attacking — sometimes unconsciously — dedicated men and women who have fought for years to get first-class old folk 's homes . |
| 17 | I started skating with a couple of guys called Sam and Luke who had skated for a while in London . |