Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |
| 9 | After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform . |
| 10 | Labour had pressed for a programme to boost jobs and investment . |
| 11 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 12 | The Medellín cartel had pressed for the confession stipulation to be dropped ; it wished to be considered as a group and given political status [ see p. 37851 ] . |
| 13 | De Gaulle reacted like a sullen schoolboy ; the august professor had gone for a while . |
| 14 | After the action had lasted for a few minutes , County Inspector Meharg , through a loudhailer , ordered : ‘ The police will hold their hands , please . ’ |
| 15 | The Cuban President had asked for a $500 surety per refugee , plus a subsidiary guarantee to cover food and lodging during the period of transit on the Isle of Pines . |
| 16 | Joanne spoke with the same contempt Jacqui had shown for the high achievements of forensic science . |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't go out like that , ’ said Wendy to Apricot when she was four , ‘ it 's freezing , ’ and little Apricot , in nothing but vest and pants , ran straight out into the street and down the long suburban road to the small playground which a benign council had made for the children in the sharp triangle of land where the railway line intersected the water-purifying plant . |
| 18 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 19 | This followed a referendum in January , held without Supreme Soviet approval , in which a large majority of the Crimea 's predominantly Russian population had voted for the restoration of the Crimean ASSR outside the Ukraine . |
| 20 | But MEPs complained that the package had reappeared for a second reading minus the crucial proposal to create a European Medicines Agency . |
| 21 | It was to be based on a report which the plaintiff had prepared for the Greek Government . |
| 22 | this was the day that members of our group had set for a sponsored walk , the length of the old Bishop 's Castle Railway . |
| 23 | Her body had stiffened for a moment but she made herself relax and huddle against him . |
| 24 | The speech Rain had prepared for the police about the keys dried . |
| 25 | Masha had suffered when her husband had applied for a visa . |
| 26 | Then he had gone , and the Curator had stared for a long time after him , and then at the golden eagle who stared blankly back at him . |
| 27 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |
| 28 | The intensified fighting at the end of April was apparently due to a report disseminated by Tanjug news agency on April 29 that the Bosnian leadership had called for a blockade of JNA forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina , and that Moslem forces had virtually declared war on the JNA . |
| 29 | Almost all these carrying on in full-time education had registered for a PhD : 91 per cent . |
| 30 | One evening Finck proclaimed that a piece of music that Tiller had composed for a skipping-rope routine was dull and lifeless and that neither he nor the Girls could do a thing with it . |