Example sentences of "we had [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Mr Walker , who had vowed he would have to be evicted with the family , said : ‘ We had hoped for a stay of execution to allow the family to depart with dignity , but the Scottish Office handled the request in the same way as they have handled the whole affair — with massive insensitivity . |
2 | At the outset of the plans , we had prayed for a sign of divine approval . |
3 | We had stopped for the night . ’ |
4 | No Met nor Notam information was displayed , and we had to ask for the Met before filing our flight-plan to Santiago . |
5 | If we had played for the whole 90 minutes as we did for the first hour we would have beaten Rangers . ’ |
6 | Their quotation was £12 for two pages , we had asked for a quote based on four , and although the letter promised a price and font list it was not enclosed . |
7 | Half way along we had to stop for a couple of hours because the ‘ road ’ had been washed away and the people who were travelling had to clear it . |
8 | Well that was the , the erm union for us , erm I think erm one of the great assets of being in public transport was that we were in a local erm pension scheme , erm when , when we in the office started , we had to wait until we were eighteen and then we had to wait for a vacancy because there was a limited number of people that the Council were prepared to back by paying a similar amount . |
9 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |
10 | We had to wait for an hour for our connection to Frankfurt . |
11 | We had to pay for the doctor . |
12 | When I was thirty , we did n't have the vote , we had to fight for a place in the world . |