Example sentences of "have [verb] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steve Stoutt , Grimsby 's defender , has joined Lincoln for £10,000 and plays today . |
| 2 | They have also been able to drive down costs faster than the locals and so create new export possibilities , even back to Japan ; a feat that has eluded Detroit for decades . |
| 3 | The high-street chain Comet had a tighter contract than most small dealers and has sued BSB for £10 million ; the manufacturer Philips has sued for over £50 million . |
| 4 | ‘ Audrey 's an absolute cow to her but , in fairness , Audrey has tolerated Ivy for years , whereas Ivy has never been slow to criticise her . |
| 5 | Ann Nalson has known Iain for years . |
| 6 | New York-based , Parallex Graphics Inc has introduced XVideo for Insoft Inc 's Communique software conferencing system : XVideo , a real-time full-motion colour system , which allows users to operate in workgroup conferencing situations . |
| 7 | She 'd known Nick for years , meeting him when she 'd come to London to visit her cousin Mark Bristow , Sally 's son . |
| 8 | Frain should have joined Sunderland for £350,000 but the move collapsed when Birmingham chairman Samesh Kumar demanded a clause be inserted in the deal that would give Birmingham 25 per cent of any sell-on fee . |
| 9 | Gavin Peacock turned down a move to Ayresome Park to stay on Tyneside and Keegan , having pipped Lawrence for Charlton winger Robert Lee , is close to landing Hignett — who has also attracted West Ham and Manchester City . |
| 10 | They will have to buy NetWare for NFS , which costs $5,000 for 100 users . |
| 11 | They 'll have to buy NetWare for NFS , which costs $5,000 for 100 users . |
| 12 | You 'd have sold Christ for dollars , ’ and turned his back on the German . |
| 13 | I personally would n't regard having to contact Germany for spares as the end of the world , and have always found Warwick to be extremely helpful in such circumstances . |
| 14 | UNDER 12s : Junior may well have asked Santa for Madonna 's Erotica ( WEA ) . |
| 15 | She 'd have asked David for help . |
| 16 | But she seemed to accept the Glaswegian accent and his story of having left Scotland for London in his teens . |
| 17 | Frustrated dynastically as well as sexually , Ecgfrith is likely to have blamed Wilfrid for Æthelthryth 's contumacy . |
| 18 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 19 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've known Arnie for ages . |
| 22 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 23 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
| 24 | The ideas of Russian Formalism survived , however , in the work of the Prague Linguistic Circle , one of whose founders , Roman Jakobson , had left Moscow for Czechoslovakia in 1920 . |
| 25 | 7/JG 26 had left Sicily for Taranto during this period , operating over southern Yugoslavia on 6th. , the day of the invasion of that country . |
| 26 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 27 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 28 | She hardly knew them , had met them only once , Jacob had reminded her , at her grandmother 's funeral in Portugal , before they had left Europe for America . |
| 29 | He had left India for Egypt because he wanted to get out , not up . |
| 30 | By December , 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip across the Jordan , 116,000 had fled from the Golan further into Syria , and 11,000 had left Gaza for Egypt . |