Example sentences of "he have [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 2 | He seeks more time and he has asked for a year or more . |
| 3 | Forest want an answer from Keane by the end of this week and he has asked for an extra couple of days to iron out the finer details . |
| 4 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 5 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 6 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 7 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 8 | Since he resigned as defence secretary over the Westland helicopter affair in 1986 , he has campaigned for an active industrial policy . |
| 9 | If you do intend to use it , you register the program with the author , and pay whatever fee he has specified for a licence to continue using it . |
| 10 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 11 | He has appealed for a halt to the fighting , warning anybody who will listen that the Arab world is headed ‘ for a period of turbulence like never before ’ . |
| 12 | Even his genetic code was noted , from when he 'd applied for a work permit , but no matter how subtly Reynard interrogated , no matter how bright his ideas of lateral interrogation , every time he drew blank . |
| 13 | After that , he 'd headed for a street in north-west London that he had n't visited in over a year . |
| 14 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 15 | Well he told me he 'd gone for a count |
| 16 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 17 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 18 | He fell asleep , but hours later he woke up and felt again — as he 'd felt for a moment in the hall when he 'd arrived — that he should n't be in this house . |
| 19 | He 'd thought for a moment that the fates had it in for him . |
| 20 | Gorelli , he 'd won for a while , but now he was losing , and he was losing big . |
| 21 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 22 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 23 | He bought groceries to last him the week , then popped next door to the frame shop to pick up the stainless steel frame he 'd ordered for a James Barker black and white print he 'd obtained in an auction some weeks before . |
| 24 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 25 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 26 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 27 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 28 | He had hoped for a critical reexamination of the field . |
| 29 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 30 | He needed to compare his ledger 's statistics with the industry averages/norm , and he had hoped for a concentrated sample from their trade association , but no such luck . |