Example sentences of "[conj] they had [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 2 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 3 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 4 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 5 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 6 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 7 | Those who had a reasonable chance of survival received an allowance from the health department of the local authority , but those incurables who needed financial help were made aware of their grim prospects because they had to apply for public assistance instead . |
| 8 | Whistling in the wind , that had been , because they had settled for half , and never recovered from the shame of behaving in the same way as the typists and fitters and laboratory assistants . |
| 9 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |