Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each bird seemed to know exactly which Minpin it was collecting , and each Minpin knew exactly which bird he or she had ordered for the morning . |
| 2 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 3 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 4 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 5 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 6 | Mrs Hutchinson , who has two daughters , aged 16 and 21 , said : ‘ At first , Frank and I had to cope for everyone else . |
| 7 | On the Waterfront and Rebel without a Cause had appeared in 1954 and 1955 , starring Marlon Brando and James Dean respectively , and I had fallen for them both . |
| 8 | ‘ We bought it in Paris and I had to stand for hours while they fitted me . |
| 9 | Rhoda and I had to fend for ourselves . |
| 10 | And and I had to pay for it of course . |
| 11 | Knowing this , I was still impotent , for I had nothing to put in its stead , no one to turn to for advice or support , and I had learned for myself nothing of life except that I was bad at living , and that where I loved I met only rejection and disaster . |
| 12 | No sooner was I off the train than the guard blew the whistle and the train started and I had to run for it . |
| 13 | So i it was n't a very easy thing then to get them and as I say you 'd be preparing a fare increase which , perhaps a ha'penny on certain fares and a penny on fares above a certain range and you had to allow for depreciation , or resistance in the public travelling but er as long as you could always bring in a little extra from a fare increase it was worthwhile going forward . |
| 14 | Your poor visitors had come miles , had to wait to be taken from the prison gate to the gym , and then had to queue up waiting to hand in a bunch of flowers or something trivial , and then it all had to be signed for , then the screws came over to your table and you had to sign for it . |
| 15 | Blacksmiths were the thing on the side of the road , did n't he do all the wheeling , mend your wheels , and all horse , all iron wheels , and things like that , wo n't years ago , and you had to send for him to come and do 'em , w well , he had men that he 'd , that he 'd taught like boys , apprentices . |
| 16 | Family meant a great deal to him , obviously , and she had witnessed for herself his kindness and strength . |
| 17 | No , and she had to pay for the petrol . |
| 18 | He was the Principal Scientific Officer Document Examiner , and she had worked for him as a young S.O . |
| 19 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
| 20 | In the second half we saw little ball and we had to defend for our lives . |
| 21 | So , no sooner did the record go into the charts and we were going ‘ yeah , this is it — hooray — we 're taking off ’ , they dropped the record and we had to wait for the guys to come back to earth . |
| 22 | But all the local ambulances were busy and we had to wait for one to come from Richmond , which is many miles away . |
| 23 | His one break from bop conventions lay in the pacing of each set , since he favoured fast tempi almost exclusively , and we had to wait for the penultimate tune of the night to hear a ballad played at real ballad speed . |
| 24 | It maybe still the same now , erm because right up to the time I erm retired we , we had on occasions to pay for the residual value of a tyre , perhaps a bus had been in accident and the tyre had suffered damage which it was n't possible to repair it or retread it , perhaps a hole had been pierced through the wall , they scrapped that tyre and we had to pay for the residual value , mind you being in accident we could then claim it off the insurance company but , so right up to the time I retired that 's how tyres were paid for . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It had started when they discovered she was meeting Rob , and they had asked for her promise that she would never see him again . |
| 29 | Then , police claim , someone took a shot at them , and they had to withdraw for their own safety . |
| 30 | 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 . |