Example sentences of "[verb] had a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Australia has had a Labour Government for some time , but unemployment there is higher than in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Over the years , quarrying generally has had a bad record for pay and conditions , and Penrhyn has a particularly infamous past . |
| 3 | Webb trying to release Collimore now , Whitlow who er has had a wonderful game for by money wins it back . |
| 4 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 5 | As for John Smith , he could not have had a better target for his Commons debut as Labour leader … |
| 6 | It is not perhaps surprising that Sir Walter Scott , with his antiquarian interest , should have had a sharp eye for architectural difference , or even for interior detail , provided it could claim to be antique . |
| 7 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |
| 8 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 9 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 10 | Under other circumstances I 'd have had a snappy answer for her . |
| 11 | David , an obvious model for early medieval princes , could have had a special appeal for Charles ( as we know he did for Alfred ) . |
| 12 | Just as the barbarians themselves seem to have changed their policies about settlement , so too the Romans are unlikely to have had a monolithic system for settling the barbarians within the Roman Empire . |
| 13 | Green was all for restoring Lord 's Island which seemed to have had a strange fascination for him , as it has for the present writer who has also , found for herself , the vestiges of the pier , the house , the shooting butts , etc . |
| 14 | Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship . |
| 15 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 16 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 17 | From his earliest childhood , when to draw meant to think ‘ and draw a line round my think ’ , Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( 1869–1944 ) had had a phenomenal memory for detail . |
| 18 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 19 | He had had a few hopes for Sally-Anne Tunstall himself , had been sorry to see her go . |
| 20 | The Northern Ireland government had had a bad press for years as have had all weak and well-meaning governments in a classical revolutionary situation whether they were Stuart , Bourbon , Romanov or more modern . |
| 21 | It had been destined for the pinacotheca but the dealer had had a soft spot for Charlotte . … |
| 22 | Mm I 've got , I 've had a bloody cold for fucking ages . |
| 23 | I 've had a bald patch for twenty years . |
| 24 | Anyway , since those days I 've had a marked preference for small frail soft-spoken dentists like Mr Grover . |
| 25 | They have had a 50-year run for their money , but as in Europe at the end of the 19th century ( a more appropriate historical comparison than the endless 1920s/1930s imagery ) there is a great hunger for new forms of governance . |
| 26 | Even those of us who have had a sneaking sympathy for Marina 's parents find their inability to accept their grandchild hard to comprehend . |
| 27 | The thing is , you have n't had a brilliant neither of you two have had a brilliant reputation for a long time , right ? |
| 28 | LIVERPOOL have had a sensational move for Nottingham Forest star Nigel Clough turned down — by his dad . |
| 29 | Twenty six patients have had a restorative proctocolectomy for familial adenomatous polyposis of whom 20 had a synchronous proctocolectomy and pouch construction and only four of these patients had a covering loop ileostomy . |
| 30 | Managers of the system have had a continuing battle for the funding and managerial autonomy required to run it , and the corporation 's survival has at times been in serious doubt . |