Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 2 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 3 | Clevedon Veals skipper Ray Bazeley had only planned for a small squad outing after their first choice match on the Nene at Peterborough was cancelled . |
| 4 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 5 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |
| 6 | It was a word that Masklin had only known for a year . |
| 7 | If it did n't , I thought re-reading had better keep for a rainy day . |
| 8 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 9 | Kerry , president of the Committee for the Search of American Servicemen Missing in Action , had long pressed for a lifting of the US trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cambodia . |
| 10 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 11 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 12 | GARY Huntingdon , the Lib-Dem 's man in Sedgefield , had just arrived for a spot of canvassing in Chilton when he spotted four attractive women and two young children walking down the street . |
| 13 | Besides , she had always hankered for a job in uniform . |
| 14 | I had once played for a Media XI against the local club . |
| 15 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 16 | It was this book that Rincewind had once opened for a bet . |
| 17 | In November 1990 , rather than seek re-election , she had unsuccessfully challenged for a Senate seat , running against the incumbent Democrat Paul Simon . |
| 18 | The boy 's paternal grandmother had unsuccessfully applied for a residence order . |
| 19 | However , the plaintiffs had also asked for a winding up order under s 122(1) ( g ) of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 20 | I had also asked for a chair-lift and a motorised wheelchair , which have not arrived . |
| 21 | Reagan had also hoped for a ‘ clean ’ bill , one that was not adorned with ‘ ornaments ’ — in other words , concessions made to facilitate passage . |
| 22 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 23 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 24 | During November former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had repeatedly called for a referendum before the UK agreed to join moves to introduce a single currency , and the debate further highlighted the divisions within the Conservative Party in its approach to Europe , although Thatcher after the summit reportedly professed herself to be impressed by Major 's performance there . |
| 25 | They had both hoped for a classic siege manoeuvre : a complete blockade of supplies , followed when the city was weak by an assault over ditches infilled by themselves , and preceded by feints , night attacks and heavy bombardment . |
| 26 | Government spending had already been reviewed and cut substantially , but the time had now come for a great public gesture ; this was supplied by the appointment of the Geddes Committee , a typical Lloyd George manoeuvre using businessmen instead of MPs or ministers . |
| 27 | Throughout the rehearsals our choreographer , Geraldine Stephenson , had often pleaded for a larger space than the laundry in which to practise the swooping choreography she had devised . |
| 28 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 29 | A NATO emergency meeting had been held in Brussels on Aug. 3 , and the USA had reportedly pressed for a possible NATO " out-of-area " military response , a theme repeated when Bush and Thatcher met NATO secretary-general Manfred Wörner in Washington on Aug. 6 . |
| 30 | Within minutes of Cantona signing for United last week , sources at Leeds revealed that he had twice asked for a move , and stormed out of Elland Road only days before his £1.2 million transfer . |