Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] for the " 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 | The chance to buy the land for the gymnasium had disappeared for the time being , but it was not the end , he told himself . |
| 5 | 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 . " |
| 6 | Defence cuts of up to $8 billion more than the Bush administration had planned for the fiscal year beginning in October . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | Joanne spoke with the same contempt Jacqui had shown for the high achievements of forensic science . |
| 12 | The government made little effort to conceal a belief that the rural sector had to pay for the development of the urban/industrial one . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Not a snap or a twang , but the hamstring had gone for the second time in successive matches . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It was to be based on a report which the plaintiff had prepared for the Greek Government . |
| 17 | The speech Rain had prepared for the police about the keys dried . |
| 18 | No doubt a lack of soap and water had accounted for the black faces , and not the pigment of their skin . |
| 19 | The other had gone for the Wood but had entered well away from the large conifer Werewolf headed for . |
| 20 | In 1987 , the service had to compete for the hospital 's laundry contract for the first time and in 1993 , it will have to submit another tender . ’ |
| 21 | Mr Chris Spry , for the London Ambulance Service , said that the South West Thames regional health authority had asked for the army 's help . |
| 22 | On 22 July , the Water Authority had admitted for the first time that aluminium had been involved by placing a small advertisement in the local press saying ‘ that the water was no more acidic than lemon juice ’ . |
| 23 | A Dorset family was taken on a VIP trip to Wytch Farm 's production sites on Furzey Island after the father had bid for the BP-donated prize in a charity auction . |
| 24 | His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth . |
| 25 | Whilst remembering the old days I was surprised to hear that ran in the family as his wife 's father had worked for the Company at the turn of the century . |
| 26 | He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth . |
| 27 | The outgoing criminal code had provided for the death penalty for 18 kinds of crimes . |
| 28 | This was quite an achievement as there were many well-known archers at the meeting — the captain had arranged for the northern championship meeting to be held at the same venue on the three days prior to the Scorton shoot . |
| 29 | In the previous chapter it was pointed out that both classical and neoclassical criminology had already incorporated some principles that were to be fundamental to positivism : classical criminology had insisted on practical crime control rather than retributive desert as the aim of punishment , and neoclassicism had allowed for the principle at least of ‘ determinants ’ of crime . |
| 30 | Neither man had spoken for the last few minutes . |