Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law of the land saw to it that gentry who did not conform to the new religion had to pay for the privilege . |
| 2 | By the way Batty was merely a promising youngster when Wilko arrived , and I do n't think Speed had played for the first team . |
| 3 | Between 1956 and 1960 the association had to fight for the right to enter the Big Berlin Exhibition as a separate group . |
| 4 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 5 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 6 | And even Hoggatt 's Laboratory , blood or no blood , had been part of the village for over seventy years , while Chevisham Manor had stood for nearly three times as long . |
| 7 | In 1916 he cited conscription and the suspension of trades union restrictions as things that coalition had done for the nation ; Gleanings and Memoranda headlined the speech " The Coalition Form of Government almost indispensable . " |
| 8 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 9 | That the project may now be delayed by Chinese inquisitiveness should be seen in the context of the fact that the current administration had dithered for 15 years on the project . |
| 10 | When he left for Canada six years earlier , Northern Ireland had the lowest crime rate in the United Kingdom and no political violence had occurred for a number of years . |
| 11 | Sam Llewellyn 's family charter on the Lycian coast had to cater for all tastes , including those of a budding rock and roll band |
| 12 | The Countess had settled for McNair . |
| 13 | Yet , ever since Toulouse , he had wondered whether his nerve had gone for ever . |
| 14 | At five to seven she decided that her long gold hair needed another combing — and jumped up from the dressing-table as if shot when a minute later the phone in her room rang and the receptionist told her that a car had come for her . |
| 15 | Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs , their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm . |
| 16 | The opposition had called for voting in June . |
| 17 | The opposition had asked for the nullification of an amnesty decree passed by the former government on those who had committed offences during the May protests , including Suchinda . |
| 18 | There were recalls of the Jarrow marchers , as if a volcanic lava that was the death of security had devastated the country and with it peace of mind had gone for ever . |
| 19 | The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay . |
| 20 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |
| 21 | the girl on that department had gone for her lunch |
| 22 | At least the priest had to pay for his position with celibacy and prayer . |
| 23 | Measures to counter fraud had accounted for ECU52,000,000 of the 1990 budget . |
| 24 | Initial reports that the local garrison of the ( Serb-dominated ) Yugoslav People 's Army had turned out to assist the Knin insurgents proved to be false ( on Aug. 14 Serbian National Council leader Jovan Raskovic had called for army protection should the referendum be prevented ) . |
| 25 | Poor immigrants from Ireland , Wales and adjoining parts of Lancashire and Cheshire had moved in and the old wealthy elite that had previously enjoyed Everton 's rural isolation had left for more secluded homes beyond the township bounds . |
| 26 | After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ? |
| 27 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 28 | Rain asked whether he had told Oliver much about his Fleet Street days , and Oliver could name some of the papers Cobalt had worked for . |
| 29 | After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform . |
| 30 | As a result its turnover had increased for 14 successive years . |