Example sentences of "have [verb] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar action should be taken , so that the dog is told to be quiet , and you disappear until it has stopped barking for a few moments . |
| 2 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 3 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 4 | If nothing else , the jamboree has done wonders for the national dress . |
| 5 | The man in charge of Gloucestershire 's schools has had to prepare for the worst — though he hopes a compromise will be reached : |
| 6 | ‘ Sadly the North-East has become noted for a new and unpleasant form of crime , so-called ram-raiding , ’ said Mr Tebbit . |
| 7 | Mr Tebbit said : ‘ Sadly the North-East has become noted for a new and unpleasant form of crime , so-called ram-raiding . |
| 8 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 9 | Darlington 's MP , Conservative Michael Fallon , has pledged to fight for a fairer payment system . |
| 10 | The Committee has continued to press for a sensible Charter for the Courts as an adjunct to the Citizen 's Charter and meetings have been held with officials in the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department . |
| 11 | After training as an actress , she taught herself to paint , which she has continued to do for the past thirty years . |
| 12 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 13 | And er but at er there you 'd got to go for the other two years , and some parents were rather wondering whether that left you late in the queue for a job , because jobs were very difficult . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd stayed to look for the aristocratic drop-out . |
| 15 | And went on , ‘ When my mother died , ten years ago , my father did what he 'd wanted to do for a long time and moved into here , leaving me the palazzo . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd tried waiting for the natural course of events to bring me the way of the creche , some errand Mrs Goreng might send me on , but it had n't worked out that way . |
| 17 | The Irish have been so busy praying for the winners that they must have forgotten to ask for the right weather . |
| 18 | For a second she felt as he must have felt waiting for the glowing metal to eat into the skin . |
| 19 | This unexpected find would have helped pay for the dead work of the shaft sinking . |
| 20 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 21 | If we 're finally able to exclude Burrows from this tangle , and all my instincts tell me he 's not involved , then we shall have to start looking for a compelling reason for one of those people to smash Wetherby over the head with a statuette . ’ |
| 22 | June brides will have to start planning for the big event about now , so in Secrets of Success we show you how to cook the perfect wedding buffet , with salmon and salads , and , of course , a three tier wedding cake that will make 'em gasp . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew right away we 'd have to start preparing for the next one , ’ he told the boys , who were the only ones who 'd listen to him by then , in the home at any rate . |
| 24 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 25 | Yeah I genuinely look all I can say about this new album is if I 'd have continued recording for the last twenty odd years and had a sustained recording career like Cliff continued singing , this would have been the album that I would 've ended up doing anyway . |
| 26 | She would have liked to go for a long walk past the charming wedding-cake buildings that lined the promenade , but although it was only teatime , it was already too dark to see anything . |
| 27 | Above all , the new positivists portrayed the existing penal process based on such principles as having failed to provide for the proper defence of society against crime — partly through prescientific wrongheadedness , and partly through a misplaced concern with the rights of offenders ( Ferri , 1967 ) . |
| 28 | It was as if , thought the queen-dowager fancifully , the world had stopped turning for a few moments , immobilised by the enormity of her action . |
| 29 | Newman had stopped walking for a few moments , his mind racing . |
| 30 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |