Example sentences of "had [indef pn] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had nothing planned for the evening . |
| 2 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 3 | He had nothing to wish for in life , and nobody to love . |
| 4 | She felt she had nothing to live for . |
| 5 | She had nothing to live for . |
| 6 | He had nothing to live for . |
| 7 | But newspapers responded by saying they had nothing to apologise for , and described the statement as ‘ astonishing . ’ |
| 8 | Stuart Higgins , duty editor at The Sun , said the paper had nothing to apologise for . |
| 9 | Some feeling like that which had attacked Jim Nesbitt last year and made him marry that girl in Durham , who , to his mind , had nothing going for her . |
| 10 | ‘ I persuaded him [ the Millwall manager ] that he had had eight years out of me , and I had nothing to show for it . |
| 11 | Eventually , the Cypriot king dispensed with our services and we had nothing to show for it but our clothes , horses , armour , and the wounds of battle . |
| 12 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 13 | Had everyone fooled for a time , but she was wearing a body stocking . |
| 14 | They had plenty to fight for . |
| 15 | That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’ |
| 16 | Let it be said here that Jackie is not one of the wild ones ; he was never , like a Villeneuve or a Depailler , a death-seeker ; his thrills did not come from risk , from playing Russian roulette with life , and unlike them , he had everything to live for . |
| 17 | He had everything to live for really , he would manage on the money his mean father allowed him . |
| 18 | THIS is a tribute to pretty young Claire Kelleher who had everything to live for . |
| 19 | She 's so young , she 's twenty one , she 's got a bairn on the way , eighth month , they had everything to live for , everything . |
| 20 | He had everything to live for and someone to share his life . |
| 21 | It 's now emerged that one of the women was pregnant … her mother says she had everything to live for . |
| 22 | ‘ She and Gary had everything to live for and were working to get married for a life together . |
| 23 | These three teams , then , had everything to play for on that Saturday . |
| 24 | This is hard to understand , for he had everything going for him . |
| 25 | The communists had never been in a better position than they were in in , in nineteen forty eight , the civil war was , was clearly going in their favour erm they were to achieve power within eighteen months and at precisely the point where they had everything going for them , they are adopting the most moderate policy . |
| 26 | In other words , I had something to aim for , an immediate goal . |
| 27 | The managers could have improved motivation by printing target sheets or graphs of the store 's performance so that employees had something to aim for . |
| 28 | He had something to live for now , something infinitely more worth while than the seemingly mindless routine of military discipline and the risk of pointless death or — what was often worse — horrible mutilation . |
| 29 | Ember would n't even tell her what from , but she could sense through the flux of data that came from her paling blue awareness that the others had something planned for her , something that she did n't want . |
| 30 | Even the lowest of the qualifiers still had something to play for . |