Example sentences of "[adv] had for " in BNC.

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1 But civil strife and political violence , the quick and easy expedients of the gun and the bomb , already had for him a romantic and almost Byronic aura .
2 ‘ You know , the only ambition she ever had for me was to marry well and bring up the colour of the family . ’
3 In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis .
4 This is remarkable , given how little evidence he really had for his theory and how much of the evidence he had was wrong !
5 This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge .
6 I have always asked myself how much Argan actually loved art , and how much derived instead from the respect he certainly had for his own intelligence .
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