Example sentences of "had [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 2 | The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory . |
| 3 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 4 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 5 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 6 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 7 | He had to supervise dances he had arranged for Aida , one of the productions taken by the Covent Garden Opera to the Rhodes centenary celebrations . |
| 8 | It had been courteously framed , but Goibniu had arranged for Balor to go with them and Floy had known — and everyone had known — that it had not really been a request but a command . |
| 9 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 10 | Omar had arranged for Beyyene , a negadi or muleteer , to meet us at Mojjo Station , sixty miles down the line , with his men and twenty pack mules , and we sent Kassimi , Goutama and Makonnen ahead with our own animals to join him there . |
| 11 | Usually Beth accompanied her to town , but , seeing as the Hansom would be going right by the flower-shop , she had arranged for Cissie to be dropped off there . |
| 12 | Before Luke arrived back she had arranged for details and menus to be sent to her home address , and she was humming softly when he came in . |
| 13 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 14 | Daniel , who spent £75 on new games and equipment , added : ‘ We had to wait for ages but it was worth it . ’ |
| 15 | I followed mum and joined a long queue , there we had to wait for ages while other people on our flight handed in their tickets . |
| 16 | As we were leaving the theatre , we had to wait for Dad to shake hands in the foyer with some dignitaries . |
| 17 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 18 | ‘ I offered to bring her back again but she said she had to wait for Angharad . ’ |
| 19 | Similar decisions were reached in the cases involving hole in the heart babies who had to wait for treatment because of a shortage of trained specialist nursing staff . |
| 20 | Some people had to wait for parents to pick them up . |
| 21 | He struggled towards an understanding of continuity , though the work had to wait for Newton and Gottfried Leibnitz to produce an infinitesimal calculus to master this difficulty . |
| 22 | DR 's GEM was happily running on Intel 8088-powered XT machines whilst Bill Gates had to wait for Tandy 's Intel 80186 processor powered PC , just to make version 1.0 of Windows run efficiently . |
| 23 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 24 | However , Coun. Mrs Town said the time restrictions would seriously hamper disabled people who often had to wait for lifts into town . |
| 25 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 26 | They were meant to coincide so that travellers would have a smooth connection , but they rarely did , and the tea-houses and cheap hotels of Half a were swollen with travellers who invariably had to wait for days . |
| 27 | Soviet policy with regard to Eastern Europe was sloganised as ‘ development in groups ’ , as though we had to wait for Mongolia to catch up before we could be allowed to develop . |
| 28 | Had to wait for James , I had n't noticed he 'd gone past |
| 29 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 30 | High Anglican architects such as William Butterfield ( 1814–1900 ) and George Edmund Street ( 1824–81 ) took up these ideas and produced a series of parish schools which combine simple planning and construction with details they had developed for church architecture . |