Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English boy showed the others all the implements and products I had collected for cleaning and disinfecting , telling them I had a mania for cleanliness , and I 'd once decided to wash all his clothes and he 'd had to stay indoors the whole day . |
| 2 | the times I 've tried for up to five minutes waiting for switchboard to answer |
| 3 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 4 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 5 | I think I 've done that with the eleven goals I 've scored for Newcastle . |
| 6 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 7 | I 've even known her red , and that only in the eighteen months I 've worked for her . |
| 8 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 9 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 10 | It was just possible that the painkillers she had taken for her shoulder had reacted with the alcohol , but it seemed unlikely . |
| 11 | Should the need arise , the two channels can be slaved together , so that the signal passing through Channel 2 is actually controlled by the parameters you have set for Channel 1 . |
| 12 | Books you 've read for pleasure . |
| 13 | In particular , I needed to gain access to teachers ' appointments panels within the school where it would be possible to observe appointments procedures , collect documentary materials such as copies of application forms ? curriculum vitaes ? references and job descriptions and follow up my investigation by interviewing candidates who had applied for posts after their interview had taken place . |
| 14 | She went on a school trip to Tuscany and saw many of the pictures she had known for so long . |
| 15 | Lydia had always collected curious specimens for her parties , frequently foreign : South Africans who could tell her what it was really like over there , Nigerians in brilliant robes , an Asian boy with almond eyes who had stayed for a month until Gerald heard the scurrilous talk and kicked him out . |
| 16 | Her idol is the 1920s artist Varvara Stepanova , whose clothes designs she has reconstructed for museums and whose portrait , along with that of the revolutionary poet Mayakovsky , she has stitched on to another of her own red dresses . |
| 17 | Police chief Amarjeet Singh Samra said the most wanted people were six brothers who had left for Dubai on Thursday and Friday , just before the explosions . |
| 18 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 19 | ‘ We are meeting the goals we have set for ourselves in returning Digital to profitability and growth , ’ said president and chief executive Robert Palmer . |
| 20 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 21 | The question to be faced after the Robbins deliberations was whether the solutions they had proposed for the CATs constituted a model for future action . |
| 22 | [ O ] ur statesmen have the greatest opportunities they have had for many years , and likewise the greatest duty . |
| 23 | Ever since Kashmiri Muslim fundamentalists launched their armed struggle for independence in January 1990 , tens of thousands have fled the valley leaving homes they have occupied for generations . |
| 24 | The amount of land made available for them to purchase should be approximately equivalent to the allotments they had tilled for their own subsistence under serfdom . |
| 25 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 26 | For Wilson , Sting 's success , and the prodigious royalties it had earned for Virgin , was merely one feather in an increasingly crowded cap . |
| 27 | They had been away from home for eight weeks , and one evening the captain showed us the presents he had bought for his wife . |
| 28 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 29 | Apart from a few ornaments and pictures he had paid for everything . |
| 30 | He has informed his doctors and begun the painful process to negate the effects of the hormones he has taken for the last nine months . |