Example sentences of "have [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home .
2 An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software .
3 ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said .
4 All have doctorates in musicology from either Cambridge or Oxford ; two are currently associated with King 's College , Cambridge ( where the wellsprings of the English a cappella renaissance are to be found ) , and one has taught for several Oxford colleges that are also medieval choral foundations .
5 The move , by the new coalition of Liberals and Christian Democrats , satisfies the Dutch confederation of industry , which has lobbied for more support for industrial R&D and innovations .
6 SINGER Dannii Minogue , 21 , has fallen for former Home and Away star Julian McMahon .
7 Sir David is a long term supporter of Save The Children and has sat for many years on the industry and commerce group .
8 The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate .
9 Perhaps the time has come for another name to be engraved on the trophies .
10 Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week .
11 Female choice probably has selected for many of the properties of courtship , such as the ‘ zigzag ’ display and red belly of male sticklebacks .
12 The demand for health care has risen for many reasons .
13 The derogation , which applies to all cereals intervened after November 1 , puts UK farmers on a par with their counterparts in northern Europe where the relaxation has applied for some time .
14 THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 .
15 THE public has applied for more than half of the £5.3billion water privatisation issue , with more than 1.4 million people signing cheques for an average of £2,000 .
16 As Falk points out , Builder himself has argued for such a shift ( Builder , 1979 ) .
17 NCLE has argued for some time that schools should have coordinated policies on language as a medium for learning and languages as subjects .
18 The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament .
19 She has argued for more competition in state lottery tenders .
20 The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that .
21 However , the catering department ( which comprises the customer restaurant , tea-room , coffee bar and staff canteen ) has suffered for several years from higher than average food cost percentages and labour turnover .
22 Whether society has the right to determine its own morality is a debate which has raged for some time .
23 If ADAS wishes to continue to provide the service that it has done for many years to our industry , and as an ADAS spokesman said ‘ not to price itself out of the market ’ , then it needs to join the real world .
24 For her , there is some slight security in the continuity of attending to all the basic daily household tasks as she has done for many years , but when his ‘ first wave ’ of helpers begins to depart he will have to learn to do much more for himself to keep his home going , which will be an added burden to those he is already carrying .
25 But eventually she persuaded us she meant it and we went and it was an invaluable experience meeting not only our missionary partner but the people among whom she lives and and works and has done for many years .
26 When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years .
27 He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’
28 He is well qualified to do the job he has done for many years and we will continue to employ him at races . ’
29 Keegan said : ‘ A lot of people appreciate what Mick has done for this club .
30 Angling for the deal that it has sought for some time now , UK firm IXI Ltd , Cambridge , is starting to cast groundbait all over the water in an attempt to land its catch .
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