Example sentences of "and had [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 2 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 3 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 4 | ‘ I voted for Al Gore for Vice President and had to vote for the other fellow to get his ( Gore 's ) name , ’ Mr Clinton told a neighbour as reporters listened in . |
| 5 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 6 | Saúl Ubaldini , secretary-general of the CGT and leader of the Azopardo wing , had opposed the austerity policies of President Carlos Saúl Menem , and had stood for the Congress in September 1991 but was heavily defeated [ see p. 38434 ] . |
| 7 | The connection time was very tight and there were some weeks when I rarely caught the 7 o'clock bus to Ferryhill and had to wait for the 7.15am bus which takes a longer route and delayed my arrival even more . |
| 8 | They had the easy familiarity of two people who knew each other very well indeed , and had done for a very long time . |
| 9 | He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters . |
| 10 | The airfield 's codename was " Vino " and was near Epernay , the only thing I can remember of that occasion was that we got lost and had to ask for a radio steer from the ground station , We were anxious to get back there because the next evening Gracie Fields was performing for the troops in a local theatre , Of the visit to Prague ( which we never found ) . |
| 11 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 12 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 13 | Realising that the take-off would involve an element of risk , the Nimbus pilot had , in fact , refused to go at first , and had asked for the K8 to be moved . |
| 14 | Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus . |
| 15 | Jordan later discovered that two of his party had managed to get away and had made for the rendezvous point which the group aiming for Martuba was to use . |
| 16 | Colin Montgomerie , a British Ryder Cup player last year , who was also making his first appearance , had a 72 but David Feherty , who played steadily for 12 holes , ran up a seven at the 13th and had to settle for a 73 . |
| 17 | Love , the second round leader , could not maintain the pace he set over the first two rounds and had to settle for a third round 71 . |
| 18 | Long before , when he was in perfect health , we had watched a television programme concerned with the high cost of dying and had sent for the accompanying booklet , entitled , appropriately , It 's a R.I.P. Off . |
| 19 | Stalin , the architect of the revolutionary Soviet state , the instigator of unprecedented social reforms and freedoms , the defender of international peace and security , the supporter of Republican Spain , had struck a cynical deal with Hitler , had in one stroke abandoned the principles of collective security and defence of nation states , and had opted for the fascist diplomacy of " bilateral agreements between gang leaders " . |
| 20 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 21 | Before becoming deputy chairman of the Defence Council under Gorbachev , Baklanov had been in the CPSU secretariat [ see p. 38131 ] , and had worked for the military-industrial complex . |
| 22 | He was in fact an employee rather than an independent agent and had worked for the defendants for 17 years . |
| 23 | He had driven to Roker in Sunderland and had walked for a long time on the beach , contemplating suicide , but had driven back to his son 's home . |