Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 2 | She had always been the sensible , down-to-earth twin , yet here she was , going away with a man she had only known for two days . |
| 3 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 4 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |
| 5 | ‘ I had better ring for another cover to be laid . ’ |
| 6 | She had enough work for several more days and then after that , she would need to tramp around the streets seeking new customers . |
| 7 | The bills had merely called for further federal studies : control was considered a state and local concern . |
| 8 | While the objections to this point of view are obvious — we can be led into all manner of belief by wishful thinking — it coincided with the beginnings of a general desire to re-open the discussion which Locke had apparently concluded for good and all . |
| 9 | Tomorrow would be a business presentation , no different from the many she had already attended for other campaigns . |
| 10 | As the bomber hung up Eileen had already reached for another phone to warn the police . |
| 11 | We can quickly dispose of the most obvious zone fossil , the king himself , in that he had already lived for 60 years before his era began and we have seen that his era is commonly regarded as lasting several years after his extinction . |
| 12 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
| 13 | The fact that they had scarcely met for twenty years was immaterial and the bond between school fellows and fellow expatriates seemed stronger than ties of blood . |
| 14 | The feeling grew in many Arab states that international reaction to the Kuwaiti crisis was hypocritical , given that the West , and in particular the USA , had largely acquiesced for 23 years in Israel 's occupation of Arab lands . |
| 15 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 16 | Since central government had always paid for new building , local districts and services did not have to face the cost of using buildings and capital , and hence tended to waste space and capital assets . |
| 17 | BBC bosses wanted to know about her love life … and if she had ever posed for sexy photos . |
| 18 | It had once stood for all that was right and true in the Seven Planets . |
| 19 | The court 's general prosecutor had unsuccessfully asked for 19 death sentences to be imposed . |
| 20 | In November 1989 the 300 remaining squatters in Amsterdam were evicted , amid serious disturbances , from the buildings which they had illegally occupied for many years . |
| 21 | When the Bank of Scotland had threatened to imprison his Constable partner Robert Cadell in Calton Hill Gaol , Cadell took refuge in the debtors ' sanctuary at Holyrood — where Thomas de Quincey had also stayed for some time . |
| 22 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 23 | Reports on April 6 said that Australia 's Prime Minister Bob Hawke had also called for international action to help the Kurds . |
| 24 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
| 25 | Business groups had repeatedly pressed for punitive damages to be limited , complaining of the increasing size and frequency of such awards . |
| 26 | Overheads continued to be minimal when , after four months , he moved from Cheshire , where he had temporarily alighted for personal reasons , to Barnoldswick in Lancashire . |
| 27 | The union had originally asked for 9½ p.c . |
| 28 | The coaching committee in fact , had originally settled for four boxers but then included a fifth and Crowley then got in as a result of tremendous pressure from the body of the floor . |
| 29 | Orbis Ali , an Afar , announced that his resignation was in protest against the civil war , which had now continued for one year , and against the deteriorating economic situation . |
| 30 | Diarrhoea , which I had now had for five days , finally drove me from my bed at six-thirty . |