Example sentences of "and have [vb pp] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unit accepted it was its fault and has apologised for the delay , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Shell has admitted full responsibility for the spillage of a hundred and fifty tons of crude oil into the Mersey last August , and has apologised for the slick which killed 300 birds and injured 2,000 others . |
| 3 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 4 | " What Spanish regime " , he enquired rhetorically , " at any time , has been more productive in carrying out its tasks and has created for the Nation , in any respect , wealth comparable to that created up to now ? " |
| 5 | Mr Sellar , 26 , was previously service engineer at the company and has worked for the company since it was set up . |
| 6 | He spent two years with the Link-Up community theatre group and has directed for the Compass Theatre . |
| 7 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 8 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 9 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 10 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 11 | Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 12 | He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters . |
| 13 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 14 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 15 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 16 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 17 | They are opposed to any implicit encouragement of companies who currently import non-sustainable supplies , and have called for a boycott of leading UK " D-I-Y " stores [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 18 | They also accuse the government of entering into a private deal with the US company , and have called for the project to be opened to tender by local and foreign companies , with guarantees of a minimum 51 per cent stake for Czechoslovak companies . |
| 19 | They have learnt to organize , taken up arms and have fought for the right to be treated like human beings and that 's what we 're doing now . |