Example sentences of "[noun pl] he have [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 2 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 3 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 4 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |
| 5 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 6 | From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | The little girl too was much improved , no longer neglected , looking very pretty in the new shoes he had bought for her . |
| 8 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 9 | But in the three years he had worked for her , she had n't deceived him . |
| 10 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 11 | The best , but least likely , possibility is that Mr Kravchuk will again change his mind and ask parliament to grant Mr Kuchma the powers he has asked for . |
| 12 | The Rev. Richard Westrope left Belgrave Chapel in Leeds when there were complaints about the ‘ social gospel ’ topics he had chosen for his Sunday evening social addresses : of course these problems were not unique to Nonconformist ministers . |
| 13 | Forty thousand pounds he had paid for it , a sum which now seemed laughably small , but which in those days had been a vast amount to pay for a private house , even in such a prime position . |
| 14 | In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years . |
| 15 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |
| 16 | The motto formed part of the coat of arms he had designed for the establishment — five poker dice surmounted by an imperial crown . |
| 17 | Patrick was looking through the Kawasaki brochures he had sent for when he heard her handbell summoning him . |
| 18 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 19 | Instead of the sexy bits he 'd opted for poetic descriptions of London at night and the philosophic chapter from his last book about the beauties of a relationship between a young girl and an older man . |
| 20 | The legal question here is quite straightforward : the testator makes a bequest to his debtor , Gaius Seius , of all that Seius has borrowed from him as well as all the debts he has guaranteed for Seius . |
| 21 | Philip kicked at the pile of sticks he 'd gathered for his trap , scattering them . |
| 22 | He reached for one of the sticks he 'd collected for the pheasant trap . |
| 23 | Will the Prime Minister therefore tell us what specific proposals he has made for supporting economic projects in the republics of the former Soviet Union , particularly in the distribution industries , which are obviously of basic importance to economic growth and to the development of markets ? |
| 24 | Estabrook watched the smoke drift up over the assassin 's grey eyes , and before he could prevent himself he was telling his story , the rules he 'd drawn for this exchange forgotten . |
| 25 | Coleman had gone up on the roof the previous evening for one of his periodic checks of the antennae he had rigged for the listening post . |
| 26 | Cotton 's greatest interest for the rest of his life was to help young professionals follow and benefit from the high standards he had set for himself . |
| 27 | This resolution was offered as a substitute for that reported out by the Budget Committee , and if accepted would give the president virtually all the cuts he had asked for . |
| 28 | He had to supervise dances he had arranged for Aida , one of the productions taken by the Covent Garden Opera to the Rhodes centenary celebrations . |
| 29 | At the scene of the attack police found a plastic bag holding the pint of milk and four sausages he had bought for his tea — and some of the breadcrumbs he scattered to the birds each day . |
| 30 | Or , and this was more likely , he found Beth too lovely , too desirable , too much like the women he had longed for as a young man , and never had the fortune to find . |