Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 2 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 3 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 4 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 5 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 6 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 7 | Of course , since his release , he had made up for lost time , becoming quite a wheel in the charity game , but those two years had stayed with him . |
| 8 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 9 | In short , therefore , by 1939 pressure had built up for certain strategic solutions to the problems of London and the big cities . |
| 10 | That , for some reason , almost made him give up , not the pain , but the familiar bit of furniture , the bed he had slept in for fifteen years , now hopelessly astray and as it seemed attacking him . |
| 11 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 12 | By the end of the 1730s Truman 's Brewery had getting on for 300 publicans on the books , though less than a tenth were tied houses actually owned by the brewery . |
| 13 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 14 | We bought some after we had laid out for most of ours |
| 15 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 16 | The English girls , as I recall , were still faithfully standing by the camera we had set up for long shots , having been asked to press the button at appropriate moments when we were not in frame . |
| 17 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |
| 18 | They said I had to lie down for two hours because I was going to be groggy , but I thought Fred would be worried . |
| 19 | Seven cases in the sample ( 14 per cent ) had gone on for four years or longer . |
| 20 | I would have been quite happy if he had gone on for longer . |
| 21 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 22 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 23 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 24 | England then collapsed in wonderfully spectacular fashion ; Rose made 41 , but until Willis joined Willey everyone else had failed dismally and nine wickets had gone down for 92 . |
| 25 | They put on 24 after the previous six wickets had gone down for 40 . |
| 26 | And black dancers had gone in for contemporary or modern dance because they had felt ballet to be a white art form to be watched by white people . ’ |
| 27 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 28 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 29 | With the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate ( NII ) yet to give the go-ahead , or otherwise , for the station to re-start generation again after being shut down since February , 1991 , Mr Moares said it was not surprising that some people had put in for voluntary redundancy . |
| 30 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |