Example sentences of "have for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This stance was not new but has for a while been taken by Nationalism Today . |
| 2 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 3 | Nationalism was , is and will be : it is , as Tom Nairn put it , the Janus-face looking at once forward to liberation and progress and backward to reactionary and often mythical notions of the past ; it is a force which should never be identified with the nation-state , a concept which nationalism has for a time inhabited , as a hermit crab inhabits a shell , but is evidently beginning to evacuate as the sovereign nation-state shows clear sign of obsolescence . |
| 4 | It is apparently most excusable to rape your wife if she has for a period refused sexual intercourse ‘ unjustifiably ’ or if she has refused sexual intercourse unless her housekeeping money were raised , or even , curiously , ‘ in order to win her back . ’ |
| 5 | Er , it 's a wee problem I 've had for a say about a year now . |
| 6 | It was a brilliant response — the best we 've ever had for a competition . |
| 7 | that we 've had for a while . |
| 8 | She plays hard to get — but anything can be had for a price . ’ |
| 9 | And you know what he 'd have for a treat ? |
| 10 | Your licence we 'll have for a year . |
| 11 | In my view the idea of his being monkish , or that he could have for a moment dreamt of entering a monastery , is not to be entertained , despite the claim of the Reverend William Levy in his Memoir . |
| 12 | Often employees are moved around an organization with the same consideration that one would have for a table or chair . |
| 13 | Christopher and I then returned to the fringes of power , having for a time been drawn perilously close to the centre . ’ |
| 14 | Well , what we 're having for a dinner for lunch I think we 're having bacon and eggs and sausage and things like that . |
| 15 | 203 , the corporation , having for a number of years paid purchase tax on manufactured stationery , erroneously believing it to be due , sought to recover it when it was held not to be chargeable . |
| 16 | He was a good man to have for a friend but a dangerous one to have for an enemy . |
| 17 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 18 | In the following year he won the 100 yards AAA title ; he had for a while reigned as the British number one high jumper . |
| 19 | She had for a while become a Monotype operator , on one of the " women 's machines " , and also remembers " trying to do imposition " and doing a little display work in one mainly jobbing firm where she worked for a short time . |
| 20 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 21 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |
| 22 | Ven made no move to detain her , not that she had for a second considered that he might . |
| 23 | He knew little more about her now than when they had first encountered each other in the abbey ruins on a blustery August evening less than six weeks earlier , had for a minute stood and gazed and had then moved silently towards each other in a wordless , amazed recognition . |
| 24 | And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy . |
| 25 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 26 | This concept of ‘ legal despotism ’ had for a time considerable importance , at least in intellectual circles . |
| 27 | If Country Jacobitism had for a time in the early 1690s represented an alliance of disillusioned Whigs and Tories , it nevertheless ended up as a platform which drew support almost exclusively from Tories . |
| 28 | It always surprised him a little that it was possible to fix the attention on the room itself , its furniture and objects , even before the bodies had been packaged and taken away , as if in their fixed and silent decrepitude they had for a moment become part of the room 's artefacts , as significant as any other physical clue , no more and no less . |
| 29 | To Miss D'Arcy he was Colonel Hope ; to Mary he had for a moment been Augustus ; to his new self , John alone ; with Joanna he had no name and experienced the inscrutable animal comfort of brief blank joy . |
| 30 | I thought I had for a moment . ’ |