Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] for a " in BNC.

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1 Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million .
2 Things had been near perfect at that stage , and they 'd gone for a drink later , with Amanda chatting up the barman who had seemed a nice shy boy , if a bit quiet for the job .
3 There they were , they , they 'd gone for a walk round London , and er come back .
4 And I also said that Dr Kemp had n't turned up at the railway station when they 'd arranged for a taxi to pick him up and take him — ’
5 A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century .
6 It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings .
7 They 've asked for a stand-ball .
8 They 've asked for a third .
9 They 've asked for a third of what
10 They 've asked for a number , have n't they , spec specifically here , which I think that 's detailed enough .
11 They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want .
12 so she just told me that so I 'll have all the news of Colin tomorrow they 've gone for a week
13 It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while !
14 The two told how Pringle had called for Jason at his home in Geneva Road , Darlington , on Sunday afternoon and they had gone for a ride around in a van .
15 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 .
16 They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution .
17 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 .
18 They had lived for a while in holes cut in the turf banks .
19 After they had driven for a while , Edward said : ‘ Are n't we involved at all now ?
20 SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left .
21 There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time .
22 And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris .
23 The movies , as Dr Dale had suggested , had ‘ the entire world as their range ’ and yet they had settled for a very restricted section .
24 In 1347 he promised that the grievances of the Commons should be remedied by Chancery writs against Forest officers , but next year ‘ the commons of the county of Surrey and of other counties ’ complained that although they had sued for a writ in the Chancery , they had not been able to obtain the promised remedy .
25 They did n't often have a chance to leave the pub together , but this afternoon she was determined to have a family outing , so as soon as the dinner-things were washed up , they had come for a walk to the Island Gardens .
26 They had talked for a while then he had given Green a lift back to his hotel .
27 He thought , They had forgotten for a moment that I 'm a policeman .
28 They are perhaps playing a more prominent part than they have done for a long time .
29 Most of those leaving the cities have done so through the commercial market and they have moved for a variety of reasons ( Kennett and Hall , 1981 ) : more freely-available , cheaper , owner-occupied housing might be found beyond the cities in environmentally-attractive locations ; households are more mobile — car-ownership rates doubled between 1961 and 1981 and the electrification of some InterCity lines has encouraged a marked decentralization of people away from London to areas such as Peterborough , Stamford ( Lincs. ) and even Newark ( Notts. ) ; many move out of cities on retirement ; and for the economically active in the south of England , movement out of London becomes ever more attractive as many commercial activities leave the capital .
30 I did , and they , oh Chris erm happened to notice that they have charged for a new phone that I have n't got .
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