Example sentences of "had [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Jones , 19 , was found in a tent where a group of young people had gathered for a party . |
| 2 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 3 | My attention was recently caught by a note informing me that the Earl of Kimberley and the Earl of Cork and Orerry , officers of the All-Party Defence Committee , had arranged for a presentation by Contraves , the Swiss multinational company . |
| 4 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 5 | Eventually , well into the afternoon , we found the route — but had to wait for a couple who pushed in front claiming they were ‘ HVS climbers ’ and would not take long . |
| 6 | He reached it without mishap but had to wait for a while , watching the day begin , until the ferrymaster arrived . |
| 7 | But they had to wait for a host of their rivals to commit pop suicide before they could begin the job of moulding this new discovery . |
| 8 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
| 9 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 10 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 11 | However , it is important to note that over half the applicants in our survey had enrolled for a course though not the one we were tracking . |
| 12 | Almost all these carrying on in full-time education had registered for a PhD : 91 per cent . |
| 13 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 14 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
| 15 | But to Paula 's triumphant delight the suit was snapped up the moment it went back onto its hanger — a solicitor 's wife who had stopped for a coffee had fallen in love with it , even if the skirt did have to be taken up four full inches to make it fit her less-than-willow tall frame . |
| 16 | I had to go for a piss . |
| 17 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 18 | She suspected that she was pregnant when she began seeing Alan , but this was only confirmed when she had to go for a check-up because Alan had a urinal infection . |
| 19 | ‘ Elaine said she had to go for a blood test . |
| 20 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 21 | She arrived with twenty minutes to spare before her train was due to leave but , after she had queued for a ticket , was only just in time to catch it . |
| 22 | Labour had pressed for a programme to boost jobs and investment . |
| 23 | The Section became engrossed in the preparations for Bretton Woods and the founding of the IMF , and the Labour politicians who had pressed for a declaration of post-war policy were getting ready to fight the next general election . |
| 24 | Until yesterday this was the nearest Mike Cratchley thought he was going to get to the chateau he had booked for a group holiday this summer . |
| 25 | Many had to work for a year under the threat of the axe and even those who survived continue to live in a climate of insecurity , not knowing when the next rationalisation programme is likely to be introduced . |
| 26 | So although his neighbours opposite occupied houses with gardens , his side of the street had to work for a living : he would have been used to seeing the flame fanned by the bellows of the blacksmith , the steam rising from the sweating horses in the carrier , s stables , and — we may hope — a line of customers waiting to be served in his little shop . |
| 27 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 28 | Her body had stiffened for a moment but she made herself relax and huddle against him . |
| 29 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 30 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |