Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants .
2 Peter Jones , 19 , was found in a tent where a group of young people had gathered for a party .
3 The golfing correspondents of newspapers and magazines from all over the world had gathered for the finale .
4 In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building .
8 The Court said that Savory Milln may have felt some anxiety and even suspicion as to how Mr Ferriday had arranged for the £13.5m to be paid on his behalf , but it was going too far to say that any honest and reasonable man would have inferred that Mr Ferriday had misappropriated Eagle 's money in gross breach of his duty as a director or that any honest and reasonable man would not have applied the money , as Savory Milln did , in discharge of sub-underwriting liabilities until he had been satisfied that the monies were properly paid .
9 Her general condition was so weak that he had arranged for the doctors to take special care of her , financially assisted as usual by Theo .
10 Patterson had arranged for the solicitors in Bloomsbury to ring him immediately the jiffy bag arrived , so that end was covered and I was pretty sure that 's where the Airborne messenger was heading without further interruptions .
11 Superintendent Hayes sealed the bedroom , leaving PC May at the house until Norris had arranged for the body to go to the mortuary .
12 Patterson had arranged for the hand delivery to a firm of corporate solicitors who had an office in Bloomsbury round the back of the British Museum .
13 So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night .
14 Rebecque , in Braine-le-Comte , had news both from the Prussians and from Dornberg in Mons. The French had advanced north from Charleroi , but had turned eastwards to attack Blücher and had halted for the night at a village called Fleurus .
15 This drove Norman to consider putting the reputation and earning power which he had developed for the company to his own use , and in 1982 he formed Norman Resources Limited .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 The outcome of this work , which was carried out just after candidates had enrolled for the Batch 1 courses , is still awaited .
19 Almost all these carrying on in full-time education had registered for a PhD : 91 per cent .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 After the boat had stopped for the night there was always some work still to be done on the platform .
24 We had stopped for the night . ’
25 They accused him of altering the figures on receipts for money they had given for the release of prisoners , handing over a smaller sum to creditors and pocketing the difference ; charging prisoners for candles ; taking £5 out of the Poor Box to free a prisoner ; lending them money on their plate and watches which belonged to their creditors .
26 The fact that had struck them both , however , was the date the genotyping had given for the conception of the boy : a date which coincided with a visit Wyatt , Berdichev and Lehmann had made to a singsong house in the Clay .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Labour had pressed for a programme to boost jobs and investment .
30 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 .
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