Example sentences of "they have [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They had gods for everything , as I understand it .
2 They had time for their economic activities and were free to choose the form of payment for their other work .
3 Those who held forth in the Royal Institution in the second half of the nineteenth century , or who addressed large audiences at the British Association or its equivalents in other countries , were confident ; and they had reason for their confidence .
4 Teachers of English offered more substantial criticisms of the literature chapter , and I have to admit that on occasions they had justification for their worries .
5 Because they have skills for which there is an excess demand , their security , not in an individual assignment but of being able to earn , is relatively great .
6 The course is based on the principles of self-help , hence clients are reminded that they have responsibility for their own problems and for changing their own behaviour .
7 And the nonempiricist theories that they have meaning for us by virtue of our having encountered platonic forms in an earlier non-bodily life , or by virtue of having had ideas put into our mind-s by God , or by virtue of our having been born with them , can all be happily abandoned .
8 Those with more goods than they have need for their own consumption will sell to those who have insufficient goods for their needs .
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