Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 2 | I had no religion for a start , though I had developed respect for the Church through knowing Monsignor . |
| 3 | Some work had been done there by 1372 , but in 1375 inquiry was made into allegations that Lewyn had received money for the work but had failed to carry out the repairs . |
| 4 | The Tsar had given permission for the formation of the Legion but , a couple of months later , the Tsarina rescinded the order . |
| 5 | I think it was er fairly evident that he had given permission for the three British hostages to be released after Sir Edward Heath 's meeting with Tariq . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 10 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 11 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 12 | After Alexander the Great had regained independence for the Ionian cities he initiated the building of a new and large temple , dedicated to Apollo , on the site of the earlier building . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Officials had recommended £450 for the Band D rate but councillors decided that the figure should be reduced . |
| 15 | Less publicity shy was Stephen Quinn , publishing director of Vogue , the fashion magazine , who had voted Conservative for the first time in his life . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 18 | Although no one had claimed responsibility for the attack by last night , it was apparently being treated as a terrorist incident by the Belgian police . |
| 19 | No group had claimed responsibility for the kidnappings but a statement issued by the Palestinian Revolutionary Factions ( PRF , a group believed to have links with the radical Fatah Revolutionary Council or " Fatah rebels " ) on Aug. 7 claimed that Christen and Erriquez would be released within 24 hours . |
| 20 | The unit had claimed responsibility for the assassination of over 300 troops , policemen and government officials since 1984 . |
| 21 | The Turkish Foreign Ministry said that the previously unknown Islamic Revenge Organization ( IRO ) had claimed responsibility for the killing in Ankara on March 7 of Ehud Saha , the security chief at the Israeli embassy there . |
| 22 | The Queen Alien was built in two versions , a full-size mechanical one also using two stuntmen inside , and a quarter-sized puppet , operated mechanically , since Cameron , who had accepted stop-motion for the Terminator 's final stage , did not like it for an organic creature . |
| 23 | The Left had fought against fascism since 1933 and had organized support for the Spanish Republican armies since I 936 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 26 | Near his Chalk Farm flat was an entrée to another social scene , the world of the small magazines , of Pete Brown , Mal Dean — who had done design for the first It and Robins was drawn towards it . |
| 27 | He explained that they had made plans for the evening and politely invited Modigliani to join them . |
| 28 | ( The ‘ also ’ refers to the fact that the magistrates had made rules for the county gaol close by . ) |
| 29 | Ottavio Rinuccini , who had written verses for the ladies of Ferrara , was one of the poets . |
| 30 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |