Example sentences of "had [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAVE always had the highest regard for Rugby League 's board of directors — until their recent decision to restore the two-division set-up . |
| 2 | In a letter of 17 August 1921 to his wife he writes that ‘ I have had the first estimates for dolls ' house furniture : 13 State frames — £50 , and have sent it to Mrs Marshall Field . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I have n't had the remotest enquiry for any of my players , whether on the list or not , but that does n't surprise me . |
| 4 | The militarists have had the upper hand for some time . |
| 5 | In connection with these principles Saussure introduced two further oppositions , both of which have had the greatest importance for the development of modern linguistics : the opposition between synchronic and diachronic language study , and that between syntagmatic and associative relationships in the language-system . |
| 6 | He seems to have had the strongest instinct for cover . |
| 7 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 8 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 9 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 10 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 11 | She had had no previous treatment for any emotional difficulties . |
| 12 | They have had a 50-year run for their money , but as in Europe at the end of the 19th century ( a more appropriate historical comparison than the endless 1920s/1930s imagery ) there is a great hunger for new forms of governance . |
| 13 | Can you please tell us which members of the club might have had a specific motive for wishing to get rid of Sir Conrad ? ’ |
| 14 | And I do n't think he 's had a deep relationship for some time . |
| 15 | Much of its picturesque quaintness had gone , but it still had a deep attraction for him . |
| 16 | Of course , for serious devilry the War Bag has to go by itself , and a camera would just be a liability , but I have n't had a real threat for a couple of years , since the time some big boys in the town took to bullying me in Porteneil and ambushing me on the path . |
| 17 | The danger of this opinion is that it tends towards Manichaeanism , the heresy which says that Good and Evil are equal and opposite and the universe is a battlefield ; however the Inklings may have had a certain tolerance for that ( see C. S. Lewis 's Mere Christianity , Book 2 , section 2 ) . |
| 18 | One Labour MP , Joe Ashton , who has always had a sure touch for populist politics , used to maintain that the best party political broadcast anyone could produce would be a wildlife film about seals . |
| 19 | Australia has had a Labour Government for some time , but unemployment there is higher than in the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | One woman , who took up a new career in midlife , described how her mother , who had always had a great appetite for life , now seemed.to live through her . |
| 21 | Saucony has always had a strong reputation for the fit and comfort of its shoes , GRID builds on this reputation . |
| 22 | Oxford 's had a good reputation for relationships between staff and prisoners . |
| 23 | They had had a good run for their money and there were still thousands of reels of tape to be analysed and matched against other intelligence sources . |
| 24 | Investors have also had a good run for their money . |
| 25 | It suddenly struck Viola , in the midst of her rage , that she had n't had a good row for months . |
| 26 | He had had a good idea for a story the previous lesson and spent much time preparing a detailed picture to start it off . |
| 27 | I had n't had a good War for months ; the last one had been the Ordinary Soldiers versus the Aerosols . |
| 28 | From his earliest childhood , when to draw meant to think ‘ and draw a line round my think ’ , Edwin Landseer Lutyens ( 1869–1944 ) had had a phenomenal memory for detail . |
| 29 | Even those of us who have had a sneaking sympathy for Marina 's parents find their inability to accept their grandchild hard to comprehend . |
| 30 | While I confess that when it comes to Ovation roundback instruments I 've never really seen what the fuss was about , I 've always had a sneaking admiration for anyone who uses them . |