Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happens if Well , oh sa , pwurgh , I do n't know , I mean she has to wait for a week . |
| 2 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 3 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 4 | Every time he has to wait for a question , he claims victory . |
| 5 | He seeks more time and he has asked for a year or more . |
| 6 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 7 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 8 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 9 | He has to leave for an important luncheon party in a few minutes . ’ |
| 10 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 11 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 12 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 13 | If you do intend to use it , you register the program with the author , and pay whatever fee he has specified for a licence to continue using it . |
| 14 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 15 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
| 16 | It has extended for a further 20 years the terms of the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation ( NFFO ) for renewable energy , originally scheduled to end in 1998 . |
| 17 | In the classical theory of gravity , which is based on real space-time , there are only two possible ways the universe can behave : either it has existed for an infinite time , or else it had a beginning at a singularity at some finite time in the past . |
| 18 | It has fallen for a number of reasons . |
| 19 | Lyppard Grange is a listed building so the City Council ca n't have it knocked down but it has applied for a compulsory purchase order . |
| 20 | It has called for a global convention outlawing all toxic waste trade schemes — and it needs your support . |
| 21 | For example , because LOEX only acquires one or two copies of each item of user education material from depositors , and because it is a nationwide service , it has opted for a loan system , with no material for retention . |
| 22 | In particular it has paid for a text telephone — or ‘ minicom ’ — for the delivery suite . |