Example sentences of "[conj] they had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
| 2 | In 1347 he promised that the grievances of the Commons should be remedied by Chancery writs against Forest officers , but next year ‘ the commons of the county of Surrey and of other counties ’ complained that although they had sued for a writ in the Chancery , they had not been able to obtain the promised remedy . |
| 3 | Labour 's victory , widely predicted but with a smaller swing than they had hoped for , essentially ruled out any chance of a snap poll . |
| 4 | Berkeley School had taken on a little more than they had bargained for . |
| 5 | Indeed , hospitals may be penalised for this efficiency if they succeed in treating more patients than they had budgeted for ’ . |
| 6 | They collected more bottles than they had accounted for . |
| 7 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 8 | Mr Meyer said after a three-day meeting with leaders of Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's conservative Inkatha party that they had asked for time to consult party officials before the start of the planning conference . |
| 9 | Notice also , that there is no evidence or suggestion that they had to wait for th for this baptism , for this infilling of the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | This prompted Jeremiah Allen and three friends to form a private company offering to insure any boiler that they had inspected for safety . |
| 11 | They departed , as in the cases of Buxton , Hastings and Morgan and Phipson , from the arrangements that they had devised for themselves , and in many cases ignored their professional advisers . |
| 12 | First came the minstrels , yelling war songs , and when they had finished they tore off their mantles and threw them down before the Empress , saying now that they had fought for her such clothes were no longer worthy of them and would she give them new ones ? |
| 13 | The Government were also planning to set aside the results of another competition that they had held for model barracks and this , along with the revelations over the fate of the Government Offices competition , provoked the Council of the Institute into action . |
| 14 | The CDU parliamentary group had accused Gies ( who had headed the CDU list but had not won a direct seat in the October 1990 Landtag election ) of obliging three other CDU delegates to resign after that election by alleging that they had worked for the former East German " Stasi " security police . |
| 15 | There was no get-out clause for the gallant crustaceans who , once they had raced for glory were snapped up , popped into the cooking pot and served as ‘ dish of the day ’ by the ship 's chefs . |
| 16 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 17 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 18 | And they had asked for compensation : so not war-widows ' pensions , in any case readily forthcoming in the Libyan welfare system , but perhaps bloodwealth , that compensation exchanged between groups to ensure peace between them . |
| 19 | It had started when they discovered she was meeting Rob , and they had asked for her promise that she would never see him again . |
| 20 | Then , police claim , someone took a shot at them , and they had to withdraw for their own safety . |
| 21 | The two told how Pringle had called for Jason at his home in Geneva Road , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon and they had gone for a ride around in a van . |
| 22 | And they had fought for their country in 1939 when the Irish Republic remained neutral which was , after all , just what one could expect of rebels who had taken advantage of Britain 's involvement in the First World War to stage the 1916 Easter Rising . |
| 23 | Well I do it probably was actually but it was the switch that had gone , maybe lightning had hopped across the switch , yeah , but erm , that 's all it was it was the switch , but er , I mean the thing is it went wrong and they had to pay for it , okay it 's only a tenner to have it done , but it , if a C D player , I mean if the carriage goes , you know , sixty , seventy quid , you know I 'm buying these electrical things , it 's , because it 's a burg lock , I can buy them , get them a warranty with it an'all , then it 's took the burden off them . |
| 24 | The others took it up , humming or singing , and walked in time to it until old Donald got breathless and they had to saunter for a while . |
| 25 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 26 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 27 | The paper went on the say that such a move would at least give the people who came into the city centre greater reassurance , even if they had to pay for the privilege . |
| 28 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 29 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 30 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |