Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The majority of West European countries , together with Canada , Australia and New Zealand , had pushed for a ban on CFCs by 1997 . |
| 32 | It was the third time the hospital had applied for a government grant for the unit . |
| 33 | The Ombudsman found that the DTI committed errors in its advice to Barlow Clowes back in 1976 and if it had applied for a licence then it would not have been granted one . |
| 34 | Fields , he learned , owned a ‘ paper ’ airline , British Atlantic , which had applied for a licence to fly from Gatwick to Newark airport , New York , on an air ‘ frequency ’ which had been vacant since the collapse of Laker Airways two years before . |
| 35 | He had applied for a grant but at the time Liverpool City Council was snowed under by applications . |
| 36 | In the Gaming Boards case B and K had applied for a certificate of consent from the Gaming Board to entitle them to apply for a gaming licence . |
| 37 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 38 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 39 | One of these , a young man called Steve Fields , had applied for a job as a paint sprayer . |
| 40 | He would never be officially informed that Rich had applied for a warrant and to expect a bailiff at his door next week . |
| 41 | Masha had suffered when her husband had applied for a visa . |
| 42 | He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters . |
| 43 | He said Mr McGuigan had applied for a weapon and been turned down by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 44 | Mr Harris had applied for a clemency hearing before the governor , Mr George Deukmejian . |
| 45 | And indeed , surfacing again at South Kensington , some atavistic instinct for the lie of the land took them directly to the street in which Louise had had an office , fifteen years or so ago , and where two or three times a year they had met for a meal . |
| 46 | The Spaniards were heavily outnumbered ( the French ambassador , d'Estrades , had prepared for a struggle by bringing to London a number of officers from regiments commanded by himself and his son as well as soldiers from the garrison of Gravelines , on the northern coast of France ) ; but they none the less won the immediate contest by cutting the traces of the horses pulling the French ambassador 's coach . |
| 47 | The group 's book printing business had performed well , he said , increasing market share in hardbacks , which had compensated for a fall in demand for mass market paperbacks during the six months . |
| 48 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 49 | After the funeral at Golders Green Crematorium , the entire Williams clan — including cousins neither Pat nor Ken had seen for a quarter of a century — assembled for drinks , ‘ a real old Cockney wake , ’ as Pat put it . |
| 50 | Newton did n't have to be a scientist either to realise what his two goals had done for a Chelsea side which played with impressive self belief considering its young personnel . |
| 51 | At the outset of the plans , we had prayed for a sign of divine approval . |
| 52 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 53 | Iran , meanwhile , had argued for a compromise price of $23 a barrel . |
| 54 | If she had weakened for a moment , to the extent of uttering one soft word of forgiveness , of friendship , she might have burst into tears . |
| 55 | Gen Zia opposed the agreement because it did not include transferring power from the communist rulers to the Muslim rebels his government had armed for a decade . |
| 56 | It was wispy and very feminine , a dress she had bought for a party that had in the event been missed by at least three months . |
| 57 | He had thought for a moment that Hoomey was going to ask him back , but he knew he was n't the sort of friend that nice mothers were all that pleased to see . |
| 58 | She had thought for a moment that he was going to have a heart attack from shock , but , recovering himself , he had said , ‘ Well , now you know , what are you going to do about it ? ’ to which she had answered simply , ‘ Divorce , ’ and walked out . |
| 59 | When he left for Canada six years earlier , Northern Ireland had the lowest crime rate in the United Kingdom and no political violence had occurred for a number of years . |
| 60 | They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel . |