Example sentences of "[Wh det] they had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The anniversary publicity also involved a video of a young band called Sanctuary singing , ‘ John , we want you Home ’ , which they had written for us , and a number of colleagues and others running in the London marathon wearing Friends of John McCarthy running vests , one bearing the number 17.4.86 . |
| 2 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 3 | Joyfully , the Marchants elected Kitty to the same category of quaint but endearing knick-knack which they had devised for her son . |
| 4 | When people thought that the difficulty had been the credit firm 's fault , about half said that the company had made some mistake — such as claiming that arrears were owed , when in fact payments were up to date ; about half said they had been refused some type of credit which they had applied for . |
| 5 | In the sort snow-lit darkness people were systematically sicking up the food which they had saved for so long . |
| 6 | The amount of land made available to them was , on average , less than that which they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 7 | It lasted 26 years before John Bays , who is still competition secretary , allowed the professionals back into the Senior Cup , and the bowl which they had competed for became the prize for a new competition , the Essex Senior Trophy . |
| 8 | It worries Thailand that the bombers were carrying air tickets to take them back to Bangkok , which they had left for Manila in December . |
| 9 | In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator . |
| 10 | Finally , independent single-employer ( rather than association ) bargaining meant that US firms could still continue to deal with their own employees — even if they were now organised into trade unions — rather than be faced with an external trade union body against which they had fought for so long ( Sisson , 1984 ) . |
| 11 | At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " . |
| 12 | Is it not simply because of this : that the government , because of their appalling mismanagement of our economy , have been forced to concede that they simply could not achieve that inflation target which they had set for themselves . |
| 13 | By the time of the next possible resolution of the problem at the end of 1921 , coalition had signally failed to provide Unionists with what they had hoped for , and Lloyd George had become an electoral albatross rather than an asset . |
| 14 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 15 | Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ? |
| 16 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 17 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 18 | Both parties knew or should have known what they were doing and what they had bargained for when they entered into the contract . ’ |
| 19 | After the stridency and aggression of the school , the hate-mail , she was happy to find her temporary asylum in this gentle household where voices were never raised , where no one obsessively analysed her every sentence in the hope of detecting racist , sexist or fascist undertones , where words meant what they had meant for generations , where obscenities were unknown or at least unspoken , where there was the grace of good order symbolized for her in Mr Copley 's reading of the Church 's daily offices , Morning Prayer and Evensong . |
| 20 | Because what they had to believe for was not a miracle ! |
| 21 | The sums which people paid Maples for furniture were very small compared with what they had to pay for a house to put it in . |
| 22 | Others , conscious that they were eating the equivalent of a diamond brooch or a sapphire pendant , sat down to a last giddy meal eating before the Collector could get his hands on it , all at once , what they had hoarded for weeks . |
| 23 | That , after all , was what they had come for . |
| 24 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 25 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 26 | Mr O'Malley , of the Parents ' Association , having arrived to see what they had got for their money , stood with the rest of the interested parties , Mr Sylvester and Mrs Bean and Mr and Mrs Singh and quite a lot of the Sports Committee . |