Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a report on July 11 the French President François Mitterrand had called for the abolition of the consensus rule , saying that " this conference must adapt " . |
| 2 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |
| 3 | This was the second success that Pat had landed for the Scott stable since his return , the other having been on Crawford Says who beat subsequent Irish national winner Ebony Jane at Fairyhouse . |
| 4 | The Goodison Park manager admitted Arsenal had moved for the centre-half — as exclusively revealed in TODAY earlier this month . |
| 5 | Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night . |
| 6 | Kingsley Barrett , the Methodist , whom Ramsey had chosen for the faculty at Durham , wrote of his belief that a special providence must watch over the Church of England to give them at least some good bishops in spite of the deplorable method of their appointment . |
| 7 | Lawrie had worked for the organisation for four years but had not been offered an interview , he claimed . |
| 8 | I could not finish them until after Dana had left for the States , when I would sit day after day beside my desk , trying to write , while on the other side of Avondale Buildings the children screamed and shrieked in the playground . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me about it , ’ she said , leading Gwendolen firmly downstairs and into the garden where in defiance of the threatened rain Mr Blackwell had prepared for the serving of tea . |
| 10 | Next morning Shiona remained in bed until she was certain that Jake had left for the office . |
| 11 | Once , trying to resist his Destiny , Duroc had studied for the priesthood , but the vocation of his family had outweighed the call of Rome . |
| 12 | The ANC had called for the day to be one of national mourning and services and vigils were held throughout the country . |
| 13 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 14 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 15 | Thomas Boleyn had acted for the duke in 1469 , and his brother and heir William witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 in company with known retainers of the duke . |
| 16 | Thomas Boleyn had acted for the duke in 1469 , and his brother and heir William witnessed a ducal charter in 1480 in company with known retainers of the duke . |
| 17 | Mahomed had appeared for the defence in a number of political trials , became the first black Senior Counsel in 1974 , and had since become president of the Lesotho Court of Appeal , a member of Swaziland 's Court of Appeal , and a member of the Supreme Court in Namibia , whose Constitution he helped to draft . |
| 18 | By early February , Coleridge had achieved for the moment something like contented self-sufficiency in both his inward and outward life . |
| 19 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 20 | Mr had opted for the figure nineteen , for the multiplier in the pleadings in this case . |
| 21 | Security guard Fred had played for the Scholes club near Rotherham , South Yorks , since he was only 12 . |
| 22 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 23 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 24 | Patterson had arranged for the hand delivery to a firm of corporate solicitors who had an office in Bloomsbury round the back of the British Museum . |
| 25 | Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions . |
| 26 | I 'd picked the Bloomsbury address from a handful of alternatives Patterson had offered for the set-up as the easiest route and also the time , early afternoon , though in town these days the traffic was a matter of pot luck with the odds stacked on it being bad . |
| 27 | The policy of encouraging population increase , initiated by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini , had caused the national population to grow within 14 years from 36,000,000 to 60,000,000 , with 45.5 per cent aged under 15 , according to a report in the Economist on Oct. 3 ; Vice-President Massoud Roghani Zanjani had called for the policy to be reversed . |
| 28 | The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid . |
| 29 | Two masons who were chiselling at the finials which Flemyng had ordered for the gables would stop their clinking from time to time to confirm something that one or other had said . |
| 30 | He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants . |