Example sentences of "he had [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 2 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 3 | On one occasion , for example , Charles flew down to Broadlands to consult Mountbatten about a speech he had written for the Gandhi centenary tribute . |
| 4 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 5 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 6 | Some days later we received from Paul Ingouf copies of the article about our visit which he had written for the Cherbourg newspaper , together with further photographs and documents . |
| 7 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 8 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |
| 9 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 10 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 11 | After what Tolonen had said to him earlier he had hoped for the appointment himself . |
| 12 | Edward IV himself was reputedly disappointed by the turn out , probably because he had hoped for the backing of the Percy connection , which the restored earl of Northumberland proved unable to mobilize . |
| 13 | As for work , he had auditioned for the role of the Dauphin in Anouilh 's The Lark at the Lincoln Center , but he did not get the part . |
| 14 | Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo . |
| 15 | He had arranged for the ‘ leaking ’ of a letter he had circulated to all the delegates due to attend the presidential election in Paris on October 9 . |
| 16 | That afternoon in the big , empty cinema , I gave him a private showing of the film , and there were many pictures of Danckwerts 's shipmates of thirty years earlier , including an interview I had had with his immediate superior , Captain Helmuth Giessler , the ship 's navigating officer , who told me of the secret preparations he had made for the midnight departure from Brest in February 1942 of the Scharnhorst , Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen on the eve of their audacious dash through the English Channel to Germany . |
| 17 | Martin netted a peach of a goal within 17 minutes of his debut at Walsall on January 2 , but he only managed one more goal in the following seven appearances and failed to live up to his Hammers pedigree — he had played for the West ham first team on three occasions . |
| 18 | He had told him of the English girl on that first day when he had asked for the loan of the flat and permission for Constance to telephone from his palazzo . |
| 19 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 20 | Still half dazed by shock , lashed by rage and a deeper pain she told herself was grief for Edmund , Isabel forgot the fleeting moments when fitzAlan had shown her tenderness despite his suspicions , forgot that he had asked for the truth . |
| 21 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 22 | Weather conditions precluded this , so he had to wait for the next scheduled plane from Wick to Kirkwall . |
| 23 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 24 | He had to settle for the seat at Sladen 's right hand , opposite the Assistant Secretary . |
| 25 | On 13 June 1627 Sir Miles Fleetwood reported to Secretary Conway that in pursuance of the ‘ great service ’ he had undertaken for the king ‘ in the disafforestation of several forests , which have been very chargeable and without profit or pleasure ’ , he had completed the disafforestment of the forest of Leicestershire . |
| 26 | Although I 'd followed the progress of the King trial in the papers , it was only then that it began to hit home what a symbol he had become for the suppressed majority of my city . |
| 27 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 28 | He put one of their cocktail nuts into my mouth off a silver tray that he had balanced for the moment on the washbasin , and set himself to work on my mascara . |
| 29 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 30 | He had reached for the file of grey newspaper photographs . |