Example sentences of "had [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vogel had negotiated the release of over 34,000 prisoners whose freedom was bought by West Germany , had arranged for some 250,000 people to leave East Germany and had also arranged spy swaps . |
| 2 | We had to wait for all three of them to finish before getting it back . |
| 3 | I had to wait for another performance to see . ’ |
| 4 | Fellow passengers had to wait for another train to continue their journey because the original train 's safety mechanism had jammed . |
| 5 | The puzzle was that the times one had to wait for this to happen varied very greatly from nucleus to nucleus , despite there being only small changes in the circumstances involved . |
| 6 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 7 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 8 | She had to wait for some time before the door was opened , and she hoped very much that it would be opened by Clelia , but it was not ; it was opened by a thin , brown , balding , youngish looking man . |
| 9 | Electrical stimulation could produce dramatic effects , but the proper study of electro-physiology had to wait for some time until it was possible to record small electrical potentials . |
| 10 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 11 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 12 | Stunned by the sensation , she had to search for all the willpower she possessed not to let her reaction show in her expression . |
| 13 | They 're here all this morning , but they had to go for another meeting . |
| 14 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 15 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |
| 16 | However , by 1984 , this number had fallen for both men ( 69 000 ) and women ( 18 000 ) . |
| 17 | Jesuit leaders said , however , that those on trial had been " scapegoats " and that the search had to continue for those high up in the military who had masterminded the operation . |
| 18 | The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why : |
| 19 | The plans for the new building had to provide for these units and also for the Continental Shelf Unit which occupied a building in the Government Training Centre at Granton from 1969 . |
| 20 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 21 | But he had wished for more than that . |
| 22 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 23 | Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years . |
| 24 | Ormskirk and Chorley were both county seats under the family influence and Stanleys had sat for both seats in the recent past . |
| 25 | In earlier work , he and others had established that the cortical-evoked potential , and also direct cortical stimulation , had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before subjects reported feeling anything . |
| 26 | So although the ERP had to persist for several hundred milliseconds before the subject felt anything , they nevertheless reported that the sensation had occurred at the moment when the ERP was beginning . |
| 27 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 28 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , we did find a general mood in Whitehall and amongst the senior civil servants that their system was not perfect and that the time had come for some fairly radical changes . |
| 30 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |