Example sentences of "that he have [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 He knew that he 'd fallen for bait like a fool .
2 That he 'd arranged for the bank to cash cheques on his and my signature until all this is settled . ’
3 There 's a photograph of him standing in front of the cabbages that he 'd grown for victory wearing his Home Guard uniform .
4 Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards .
5 Lots of activities that need a spiritual power to make them work are actually outlawed by God in the Bible , so any spiritual power being used in them is clearly not from him but is from Satan ; God would n't ban something that he 'd created for our good !
6 Mediterranean , perhaps , if the skin colour that he 'd taken for suntan was natural .
7 Lindner announced on Aussie network TV on Saturday that he 'd signed for Leeds , but Davies said they still had n't received final confirmation from the player .
8 And , looking down at the still-outstretched arm , the glazed and open eyes , the great scarlet pool soaking into the earth , she knew that it was a body , that he had gone for ever , that there was nothing she need fear from him ever again .
9 Only when they actually got to know each other had he discovered that it was the idea of loving her that he had fallen for and not the girl herself .
10 The Attorney General , Eligio Hernández , appealed to the High Court against the search warrant , and said in a statement on Nov. 19 that he had applied for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of Judge Marino Barbero 's actions .
11 These directions were in complete contradiction to his old habits and Alexander found they were successful in bringing about the change that he had sought for so long .
12 But he felt as well something far greater — the sudden joy of life that he had pleaded for as the old eagle 's right , and in pleading for it then had begun at last to claim it as his own .
13 The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory .
14 Fignon said in a statement that he had asked for a second test at a different laboratory but his request had been turned down .
15 And at Old Trafford yesterday , Cantona denied that he had asked for a transfer or that his working relationship with Wilkinson had suffered any breakdown .
16 In a book generally very critical of Reagan , this comes as a rather surprising encomium to his effectiveness in office , although Stockman also makes it clear that the president did not get all that he had asked for in tax cuts .
17 It struck me as odd at the time , and when Harry Collins told me that he had asked for a morning appointment it seemed even odder . ’
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 for example , long after Bede , in his Boke of Nurture John Russell , who had been Marshal of the household of the great patron of learning , the youngest son of Henry IV , Duke Humphrey of Gloucester ( 1391–1447 ) , described how the four courses of an elaborate fish-dinner that he had prepared for his master and guests was accompanied by appropriate ‘ subtleties ’ , or ornamental devices .
21 It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure .
22 It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others .
23 When we arrived at Jaipur my father told us that he had sent for us so that we could go with him tiger-shooting .
24 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 .
25 Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied .
26 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 .
27 During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 .
28 An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme .
29 Physics realised 67 per cent ; History a promising 77 per cent ; and Mathematics was strongest of all , with an average of 77 per cent over three subjects : algebra I and II at 72 per cent and 80 per cent , geometry at 86 per cent and trigonometry at 70 per cent ; ( he admitted to us that he had opted for the latter at school , because it enabled him to evade Latin ! ) .
30 The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due .
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