Example sentences of "[conj] have [vb pp] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 2 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 3 | But I know you said there was a big erm tariff against it , but on the other hand they do get a lot of more benefits from it , like er well , the erm the price that 's paid for a lot more , and , and it gives a lot more employment . |
| 4 | Call me suspicious , but this implies that the crampon , far from adhering steadily to the spot upon which its owner has chosen to commit his or her weight , has decided it prefers an altogether different rock and has gone for a bit of a slide . |
| 5 | Mr. Lennis sent for me and said that Mr. Andrew was feeling run down , and had gone for a cruise in one of the ships , the Emily T. I kept expecting a letter or a postcard from him , but nothing came . |
| 6 | John Mumford had been a curate in the Church of England with a significant ministry and had gone for a year 's sabbatical to California . |
| 7 | Styling himself ‘ Dr. Isaac Titford ’ , he had been commissioned surgeon ( not by any means so prestigious a profession then as now ) in the first battalion , Sixtieth Royal American Regiment , and had lived for a while in Virginia ; he was also giving his enterprising spirit full reign out there in the West Indies , fathering the odd quadroon or two , dabbling in the slave trade , a postmaster at Spanish Town , a partner in a firm of druggists in Kingston and the owner of a coffee and pimento plantation . |
| 8 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 9 | He had gone then to the Syrian Embassy and had applied for a visa for himself , for his English-born wife , for his two daughters . |
| 10 | We had spent an hour or two in the hraun and had stopped for a rest when a huge white-tailed eagle came flying past . |
| 11 | They were local women and had joined for a job , but they were grandmotherly in a way , just the sort of people the younger girls needed . |
| 12 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 13 | They are opposed to any implicit encouragement of companies who currently import non-sustainable supplies , and have called for a boycott of leading UK " D-I-Y " stores [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 14 | Union members picketed the Torbay Hotel , cutting off fuel oil supplies , and later , when the manager of the plaintiff hotel was reported as having called for a stand against the union , picketed that hotel with the same result . |
| 15 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |