Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In any case , he was relieved to learn , on 22 August , that Eisenhower had given orders for the French 2nd Armoured Division , commanded by General Leclerc , to head for Paris . |
| 2 | Another student Siobhan O'Reilly , who was also in the lift , said that they had pressed buttons for the fourth and tenth floors before it became stuck . |
| 3 | On this occasion some of the Messerschmitts had carried bombs for the first time — not a new role for III/JG 27 , which had operated in this manner over the Balkans during the previous month . |
| 4 | For the first class she had just taken two soft pencils , and she had sketched while the others had mixed watercolours for the still life of a bowl of apples , oranges and pears . |
| 5 | We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town . |
| 6 | The ministers had expressed their concern over the conflict at the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in late March [ see p. 38841 ] and a meeting of " experts " from the four Foreign Ministries on March 31 to April 1 had prepared proposals for the Foreign Ministers ' meeting . |
| 7 | He explained that they had made plans for the evening and politely invited Modigliani to join them . |
| 8 | ( The ‘ also ’ refers to the fact that the magistrates had made rules for the county gaol close by . ) |
| 9 | Ottavio Rinuccini , who had written verses for the ladies of Ferrara , was one of the poets . |
| 10 | The competitors who had entered all three parts of the competition had usually designed all three parts together , and in some cases had shown drawings for the different parts on the same piece of paper . |
| 11 | ‘ We had to draw straws for the food we had . ’ |
| 12 | The Borough Education Committee had invited tenders for the supply of faggots , but the committee replied that ‘ the Guardians do not enter into competition with the trade ’ . |
| 13 | In addition to his military household , rewarded with " annual gifts " of clothes and equipment , Charles had to field armies for the sort of warfare that did not appeal much to Frankish nobles — namely , defensive or non-expansionist war ; and here the availability of cash stipends may have helped recruit professional warriors ( including Vikings ) . |
| 14 | Gary had beaten them to it , and had demanded contributions for the mission . |
| 15 | My grandfather , for his part , had found lodgings for the two boys through an advertisement in a church magazine . |
| 16 | The home had set times for the toilet : 9am , 3pm , and 9pm . |
| 17 | However , on May 19 a judge had issued warrants for the arrest of the former guerrilla movement 's general staff in connection with the 1985 attack . |
| 18 | For six-pointed shapes of the type shown in Fig 5.5 , Ellis and Muller found that subjects who had learned labels for the various shapes out-performed controls ( who had simply observed the stimuli in the first phase of training ) on a motor task that required pressing one switch rather than some other in response to these stimuli . |
| 19 | Twelve consortia and seven individual companies had submitted bids for the four main contracts under phase 1A of the project by the deadline of April 20 , 1990 . |
| 20 | As Thornton Heath depôt no longer had to supply cars for the Mitcham Road , it could take all the cars necessary for routes 16/18 and 42 and Purley depôt was closed . |
| 21 | He had climbed trees for the blue hawk 's nest , and knew its eggs and their markings ; the hawfinch , that parrot of the woods with its strange cry and saucer nest , was common in his time . |
| 22 | Agencies then had to develop procedures for the implementation of PPB by the end of December 1965 By 1 April 1966 agencies were expected to have developed a comprehensive , multi-year programme and financial plan . |
| 23 | Those who had obtained tickets for the December train have been offered a straight transfer for February 5th . |
| 24 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
| 25 | It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me . |
| 26 | ‘ The man who had been a rich merchant , and who was now a beggar , had to make brooms for the town . |
| 27 | Showbusiness and sporting stars had donated items for the auction and a sweatshirt given by Ian Botham which he had worn during his charity walk from Aberdeen to Ipswich fetched £33 . |