Example sentences of "had for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Did you ever conduct the Leningrad Philharmonic , the orchestra Mravinsky had for fifty years ? |
| 32 | She had no doubt of the genuine affection he had for her and knew she would be a fool not to acknowledge it . |
| 33 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 34 | For Henri , the desire for French control of Scotland had for the moment given way to Valois need to counter an extension of Hapsburg power ; and Mary was as useful for the one as for the other . |
| 35 | I had for company a silver-grey , two-litre Volvo and the Pensées of Blaise Pascal . |
| 36 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 37 | Svend thanked her warmly and talked about next year ; she would see the exhibit then , and he would welcome any suggestions she had for its display . |
| 38 | ‘ Ca n't you hear from the tone of Holberg 's Epistle how little sympathy he had for her ! |
| 39 | He 's had 10 times the number of commission bids for Vung Tau as he had for Nanking — ‘ and this is a much smaller cargo ’ . |
| 40 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 41 | It emerged that Hayman had for some years been connected with the Paedophile Information Exchange ( PIE ) , and had received their contact magazine — carrying advertisements from men seeking sex with children — through the post . |
| 42 | When he ventured forth , he felt he remained very tentative , lagging the eight and 10-foot putts he had for birdies on the second and third greens . |
| 43 | ‘ George Harrison taught me that — I was at his house , and I noticed that all he had for breakfast was fresh fruit . |
| 44 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 45 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 46 | Nigel Mansell had for years been saying : ‘ Just go out and win ! ’ , and finally he was on the point of doing precisely that . |
| 47 | Seven years ago Lyons Tetley called in the Mass Observation research agency ( a WPP subsidiary ) to help determine whether there was any future in an idea it had for differentiating Tetley teabags from those of competitors . |
| 48 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 49 | She had tossed and turned — as she had for a fortnight — thinking of Amy , full of foreboding . |
| 50 | In that collapse , the European Social Democratic parties , which had for so long bravely vowed to prevent war between their respective States , lined up with the belligerents ; the second International collapsed , another casualty of the trenches of northern France . |
| 51 | A disciplined , regular army was about to drive the gunmen from streets which had for so long been ruled by rival guerrillas exacting their own terrible day-to-day justice . |
| 52 | Although she always insists , quite correctly , on the importance of social and economic aspects of medical practice , Moscucci also reveals the complexity of medical thinking , and the capacity some practitioners had for developing critical perspectives on their own procedures . |
| 53 | The subsequent dismemberment of Inca society showed the faint enthusiasm the Spaniards had for this opportunity , yet it was such an idea which had given the term ‘ mestizo ’ a dignity beyond its racist translations of ‘ half-breed ’ or ‘ half-caste ’ . |
| 54 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 55 | Ludens made two journeys back to the house to bring remaining luggage , the suitcases which Irina had for so long kept packed , ready for the moment of escape . |
| 56 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 57 | Moreover I can reveal that the findings of the Committee were certainly not those indicated in this letter ; we found that Derry Corporation had for many years been carrying out a policy of anti-Rome Catholic discrimination in employment and rigid segregation in housing . |
| 58 | ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’ |
| 59 | A banquet-hall deserted — Broadstone Station would henceforth be only that to thousands for whom it had for long been associated with happiness — the happiness of the day 's work , the happiness of companionship , the happiness of simply being alive on a fine day . |
| 60 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |