Example sentences of "who had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 2 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 3 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |
| 4 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 5 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 6 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 7 | But in the end he was toppled by these very same foreigners who had for so long manipulate Iranian life . |
| 8 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 9 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 10 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |