Example sentences of "had [verb] for [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well a very close fought encounter at the stadium ; we had to wait for quarter of an hour for the first actual goal chance when Dave Bristow hit the ball from twenty five yards , which just cleared the bar . |
| 2 | The report discusses the implications of the short time local authorities had to plan for use of the grant , in particular the difficulties within the time scale of consulting users , carers and others in planning for and providing new services . |
| 3 | Until Mick had objected for reasons of safety , I had even planned to camp half a mile from the soldiers . |
| 4 | At the end of that month Colonel Fergusson imparted the news that the Frenchy picture at the Rotunda had closed for lack of spectators , whereas Messrs Marshall 's Peristrephic Panorama was still being shown three times a day to audiences rendered perfectly comfortable by patent stoves . |
| 5 | She had thought for months of trying to blow the gaff on the fact that she was past marrying off , but it had seemed a lot to put Len through , and her mother was anyway exceptionally good at not acknowledging that a gaff had been blown . |
| 6 | EXTRA COST Although local authorities , countryside groups and individuals had called for sections of the line from Lackenby to Picton and Picton to Shipton to be laid underground , the area did not merit the extra expense , he said . |
| 7 | In the 1950s the Church of England had called for reform of the law under which gay sex was illegal under all circumstances , though it still held the position that such acts were immoral . |
| 8 | In these years the Unitarians were forced out of the Dissenting Deputies and had to fight for control of their chapel property against other dissenters ; tensions and fractures recurrently emerged within the Society of Friends . |
| 9 | In recent weeks , many opposition politicians had campaigned for guarantees of future immunity from prosecution on charges of corruption . |
| 10 | In 1932 , the young hopeful Graham Greene had to pay for part of Stamboul Train to be reprinted after J B Priestley had objected to ‘ Mr Savory ’ , a pompous writer of potboiling sagas . |
| 11 | The Lancastrian , Henry Tudor , when he heard of what had happened , gathered a force in France and landed in Wales — where he had lived for part of his life — and he opposed Richard III , who was killed in battle in 1485 . |
| 12 | The women complained that the officer could only have been on the housing list for a few weeks , while they had waited for periods of between eighteen months and four years . |
| 13 | What would you expect to happen to the magnitude of the effect once you had controlled for number of years of full-time education ? |