Example sentences of "he had [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman sitting in front of him was right , he had to take responsibility for himself . |
| 2 | I think it was er fairly evident that he had given permission for the three British hostages to be released after Sir Edward Heath 's meeting with Tariq . |
| 3 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 4 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 5 | It was like he had discovered sex for the first time , ’ said a friend . |
| 6 | Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs . |
| 7 | He had wanted children for years : not having them had been the one drawback to marrying late . |
| 8 | He revealed that he had made bids for reinforcements and reaffirmed that his major target was Manchester United outcast , Neil Webb . |
| 9 | Sometimes he would revert to a previous journey to a particular spot and described his personal experiences of several years before as in Vol I , pp. 111–113 when he describes how he had made sketches for plate Nos. 46 , 47 and 49 of Sixty Large Etchings . |
| 10 | She had sucked comfort with the distant vibration of Fenna 's breathing rumbling down to his tail tip , and he had spun stories for her and woven them into dreams . |
| 11 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 12 | He had played flanker for his club , Glasgow High-Kelvinside , and no.8 for Glasgow Under-21s , but had become thoroughly established as a lock , the position he played in at Kelvinside Academy in Glasgow , where he benefited from the guidance of the school coach , Peter Billington , for Scottish Schools against Ireland and England in 1985 , for his senior clubs side and for Glasgow at senior district level . |
| 13 | He said he had heard calls for unity on every side , but for a unity of common interests , attitudes and culture shared by the two Germanys . |
| 14 | He had felt misgivings for a while . |
| 15 | This was not what he had employed Didier for . |
| 16 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 17 | The student went on to say that , though he had received help for a specific question , he had not obtained enough understanding to cope with his future library problems . |
| 18 | He had received support for his view on modernization when Lord Carrington , the former NATO Secretary-General , said on Nov. 20 , in an interview with the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) in London , that he was unable to imagine any circumstances " in which NATO would deploy new nuclear weapons which would fall on East German soil " . |
| 19 | Following a further visit to Paris for talks with Mitterrand and French Prime Minister Michel Rocard on May 28-29 , Mazowiecki said that he had received support for Polish demands over the Polish-German border issue , as well as its request to participate in the " two-plus-four " talks on German unification [ see also above ] . |
| 20 | He had done homage for Normandy and Anjou at Montmirail and he had been crowned King of England in 1170 . |
| 21 | He had sent money for a little while , and dates when he was going to be back ; and then excuses , and little money . |
| 22 | He later revealed that he had had fevers for at least six weeks before arriving in Britain and was HIV positive . |
| 23 | She did not see that if he had had rabbit for dinner it would be a case of ‘ Poor Flopsy Bunnies ’ ’ ( White , 1954 , p.35 ) . |
| 24 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
| 25 | She had accepted that he had had grounds for dismissing her at the time , considering the state of that little radio station 's finances . |
| 26 | John Tennant 's father had died while John was still in his twenties and as well as taking over Laigh Corton Farm , he had taken responsibility for his mother and the rest of the family . |
| 27 | Paul McBride , for Todd , 32 , of Hogarth Road , London , said that he had known Sim for a number of years and out of loyalty wanted to help him . |
| 28 | When I came into his life he had known Otto for about four years . |
| 29 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 30 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |