Example sentences of "which had [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest single shipload so far discovered were the 524 Chinese passengers on the East Wood which had to call for help when it broke down near the Marshall Islands earlier this year . |
| 2 | Bodie scowled , angry at the way a family , which had asked for protection , could then make itself so vulnerable by not trusting the judgment of the men they had hired . |
| 3 | The Wyndham Act of 1903 gave the deathblow to the old landlord system which had existed for centuries . |
| 4 | So it thus came about that the fields , meadows , pastures and arable acres of Combsburgh were finally taken in from the waste which had existed for millenia . |
| 5 | Albania , which had applied for membership in the IMF and the Bank in January 1991 , was admitted as the 156th member of each organization on the opening day of the plenary meetings on Oct. 15 . |
| 6 | He showed me a number of meticulous pencil drawings which had served for portraits . |
| 7 | The dual system of rule which had prevailed for centuries was formally ended and national government brought under the aegis of the reigning sovereign whose authority was recognized throughout the country . |
| 8 | The NSF , whose joint leaders were Ilya Konstantinov ( who had organized opposition meetings reported in August see p. 39058 ) and G. Zyuganov , had been established on Oct. 24 at a meeting in Moscow attended by up to 3,000 delegates , which had called for Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 9 | When the Battle of the Somme began , Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia did not exist ; Hungary was twice its present size and Austria was the centre of a ramshackle empire which had lasted for centuries . |
| 10 | On April 3 a Paris commercial court placed in judicial liquidation the television channel La Cinq , which had filed for bankruptcy in December 1991 . |
| 11 | In Slovenia , which had voted for independence in a referendum in December 1990 [ see p. 37924 ] and which |
| 12 | In addition candidates belonging to the Estonian Communist Party , which had voted for independence from the Soviet CP in March 1990 [ see p. 37323 ] and were represented in all these groups , won 55 seats . |
| 13 | The covered potpourri jar flanked by two rather ungainly guinea fowl , which had sold for $34,000 , made $47,000 ( £25,100 ) this time ( est. $15–25,000 ) , and the amusing ormolu-mounted table-fountain-cum-water cooler with cat tails and swans , which had brought $34,100 , now made $37,500 ( £20,500 ) ( est. $15–25,000 ) . |