Example sentences of "had [verb] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Uncle 's illness had placed the responsibility for all the sheep on George 's shoulders . |
| 2 | Air Marshal Sibun , Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force , announced on Oct. 18 that Indonesia had placed an order for 24 Hawk jet fighters from the United Kingdom at a reported purchase price of US$500 million . |
| 3 | She had filled a cup for herself , but made no attempt to drink . |
| 4 | He expected limitless serenity of a man half Indian , and indeed Thomas had sustained the expectation for twenty years or more . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , she felt almost certain that he had guessed the reason for her sudden change of tack . |
| 6 | Already in 1975 , however , the American Defence Secretary , Schlesinger , had justified the need for the Diego Garcia base as a response inter alia to an extensive naval ‘ facility ’ built by the Soviet Union at the Somalian port of Berbera . |
| 7 | Their junior commanders were mainly young urban middle-class men , the sort who had formed the audience for Sukarno . |
| 8 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 9 | Only I had to carry the can for it . |
| 10 | Though she had foreseen the need for such a private moment Louisa would certainly not have chosen it to occur so quickly . |
| 11 | After she went out one afternoon they decided to steal the equipment and had arranged a buyer for it for £130 . |
| 12 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
| 13 | Gedanken had to wait a minute for her eyes to get used to the inky black darkness again . |
| 14 | Then he had to wait an hour for a taxi , but made it just in time to introduce Phil Collins . |
| 15 | A TERRIFIED pensioner had to wait an hour for police to arrive after an attempted burglary at her Teesside home . |
| 16 | ‘ I had developed a penchant for Southern Comfort over the years and when not running I soon began to surpass the 20 units of alcohol per week ‘ allowed ’ by the experts if you do n't wish to become addicted . |
| 17 | On the one hand he had developed a taste for study , which he nourished with a diet of steady and wide reading . |
| 18 | They thought that he reconciled himself too easily to his position , and that he had developed a taste for exile as an escape from business . |
| 19 | Daniel had been offering to lend her his favourite book of poetry as she had developed a liking for it . |
| 20 | And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 21 | ( Luiza had developed a passion for Chinese food and Hochhauser 's first and only Chinese restaurant had done a roaring lunchtime trade as a result . ) |
| 22 | Green had developed a passion for a university law student he had met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 23 | I had developed a fondness for Emily and the aberrations of her strong personality ; I was almost flattered to be given the name of a past friend by an eccentric of Emily Carr 's stature . |
| 24 | Professor Brown had developed an expertise for predicting how much lava is stored in a volcano . |
| 25 | I had developed an admiration for the works of Ogden Nash , whose newest verse appeared almost weekly in The New Yorker . |
| 26 | For better or worse , Nietzsche had developed an idiom for his book that was no less distinctive than its contents and their range . |
| 27 | died on the evening of February 14th , just as he had completed an act for a private party . |
| 28 | We focused on enquirers to courses in science , mathematics and engineering and on those who had completed an application for a course but who for one reason or another had not enrolled for it . |
| 29 | Tony 's GP had prescribed the medication for his sleeping difficulties , but he had only taken it on two occasions , finding the tablets to be of little help . |
| 30 | Though at the very beginning of his political ‘ career ’ , Hitler had emphasized the need for anti-Semitism derived from ‘ reason ’ , not pure ‘ emotion ’ , there were — as is well known — no measures in the ‘ Jewish Question ’ which were too extreme for him , except on occasions where tactical considerations prevailed . |