Example sentences of "what they have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had people to do that for them half the time , there was no need for it , but it was as if I had to earn my keep , I had to repay what they 'd done for me , with the people that worked there laughing at me behind my back , wondering where I 'd come from , thinking maybe I was no better than them . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I can tell you what they 've asked for . |
| 3 | My Lord m may I add one further matter , er , My Lord may I say on behalf of the family er the that your Lordship 's comments will be very gratefully received er , neither Mr or Mrs , although they 've sought recognition for what they 've done for their daughter , they did it out of their fond love for her but nevertheless having such a and such comment from your Lordship will be very , very good . |
| 4 | They know what they 've come for . |
| 5 | I know what they 've come for . |
| 6 | By the time of the next possible resolution of the problem at the end of 1921 , coalition had signally failed to provide Unionists with what they had hoped for , and Lloyd George had become an electoral albatross rather than an asset . |
| 7 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 8 | Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ? |
| 9 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 10 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 11 | Both parties knew or should have known what they were doing and what they had bargained for when they entered into the contract . ’ |
| 12 | After the stridency and aggression of the school , the hate-mail , she was happy to find her temporary asylum in this gentle household where voices were never raised , where no one obsessively analysed her every sentence in the hope of detecting racist , sexist or fascist undertones , where words meant what they had meant for generations , where obscenities were unknown or at least unspoken , where there was the grace of good order symbolized for her in Mr Copley 's reading of the Church 's daily offices , Morning Prayer and Evensong . |
| 13 | Because what they had to believe for was not a miracle ! |
| 14 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |
| 15 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 16 | That , after all , was what they had come for . |
| 17 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 18 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 19 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |
| 20 | ‘ I have spent the last six months investigating Free People , and what they have asked for constitutes the first stage of their long-term programme . ’ |
| 21 | Already the estoppel doctrine has little or no relevance to transactions on The Stock Exchange under the TALISMAN system ; The Exchange and the member firms will ensure that the parties get what they have bargained for . |
| 22 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 23 | The difference lies not in ideology , nor in what they have to offer for exchange , but in their unequal vulnerability to the disapproval of the United States , the IMF and the World Bank . |
| 24 | Since candidates of the same party can not afford to differentiate themselves in political terms what they have to compete for is popularity . |