Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even last year , when her father was so ill , she and Susan had filled stockings for each other , and had such fun over the wonderful box of curios that Jack had sent from India . |
| 2 | Three SSDs had developed strategies for independent living and three others were in the process of developing such a policy . |
| 3 | And I had developed respect for these beautiful predators . |
| 4 | Following a further visit to Paris for talks with Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on May 28-29 , Mazowiecki said that he had received support for Polish demands over the Polish-German border issue , as well as its request to participate in the " two-plus-four " talks on German unification [ see also above ] . |
| 5 | By this time , however , SAVE had received permission for judicial review of the ministers ’ decision and suddenly the picture changed entirely . |
| 6 | It was obviously impossible for the receiver to sue the person who had appointed him , and in any event the company had received indemnities for all costs , including those of the other side if necessary . |
| 7 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 8 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 9 | In an inflationary age those who had sound customary tenures reaped the benefits of fixed annual rents , but those tenants who were successfully challenged by their lords had to meet demands for considerable increases . |
| 10 | Chris Webb reported a quiet year for the planning committee , with only 78 applications , most of them for extensions , alterations and change of use , although it had included plans for low cost housing . |
| 11 | The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered . |
| 12 | While third party developments such as the Hercules graphics cards helped relieve this situation they complicated the life of the software developers who had to provide drivers for each and every variation . |
| 13 | Prosecutors in Nowy Sacz province had instituted proceedings for criminal slander of a state official , which carried a maximum eight-year prison sentence , and following his defeat by Walesa in the December 1990 run-off election Tyminski had been required to post bail of US$100,000 before he could fly home to Canada . |
| 14 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 15 | George 's favourite model , his daughter Samantha , had turned model-maker for this project and fashioned a velvet beanbag to help him achieve a realistic finish and to portray the Teddy as an ‘ old bear with modern leanings . ’ |
| 16 | There were also reports that Iraq had sought sanctuary for many of its most modern aircraft in Iran . |
| 17 | It was reported that the couple had made love for real , and that the scene had to be drastically cut by the censors . |
| 18 | When the US had offered escorts for Kuwaiti shipping much earlier , they were reportedly turned down . |
| 19 | None the less , the spirit which had animated plans for post-war construction did not die away in the interwar years . |
| 20 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |
| 21 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 22 | He gave the pope an account of the evidence that had been brought forward , giving first place , and by far the greatest amount of space , to the testimony of Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which showed that the archbishops of Canterbury , acting on the authority of Pope Gregory I and his successors , had exercised general authority over the whole of the British Isles during the first hundred and forty years of its existence : they had consecrated bishops for all parts of the country , summoned councils , deposed unworthy bishops , and had been generally responsible for spreading Catholic discipline into Wales and Scotland . |
| 23 | Unlike Roman Catholics , who had to come to terms with the use of the vernacular , Anglicans had used English for four hundred years . |
| 24 | Mrs Travers and Mrs Patel had shown flair for public relations from the beginning ; and the beginning for them had been shortly after the famed conversation in Sainsbury 's , when they organised a summer procession in honour of family values in a South London borough particularly hard hit by both government spending cuts and feminists insisting that ‘ family values ’ were a euphemism for women doing the housework . |
| 25 | Thus the Treasury had to give permission for all borrowing undertaken by a local authority , not merely in total but for each project for which money was borrowed . |
| 26 | The report appeared to confirm rumours which had long circulated to the effect that the CIA had passed on information ( supplied by an informant within the ANC ) which enabled the South African authorities to arrest Mandela , who as an underground activist had evaded arrest for 17 months . |
| 27 | He points a finger at my unspeakable carpet , which had escaped mention for many chapters and would continue to do so for those remaining . |
| 28 | Two patients had experienced diarrhoea for 25 and 27 years respectively , which had remained unexplained . |
| 29 | Sami 's cousin and business associate , Jamal Hamadan , had known Younis for six years . |
| 30 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |