Example sentences of "had [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it only two weeks since that bleak morning when I had nothing for a future and everything seemed too late , when I dragged myself about the house , alone and miserable and weighed down by self-pity ? |
| 2 | They had nothing for it but to crawl back to Mr Scully and to pay Mike Channon 's cancellation fee ( £353 ) out of their own pockets . |
| 3 | He wanted me to handle all the money side and do the bills but some weeks I had nothing for food , nothing for bills , nothing for the children . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 5 | You had them for quite a long while . |
| 6 | When he was quizzed Righton — a leading consultant on children 's homes -said he had them for his ‘ personal gratification . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We had them for lunch , Miss Trunchbull . ’ |
| 8 | The Yanks had in fact had them for some months in the Scullery apartment . |
| 9 | Look , they had them for women too ! |
| 10 | Whatever happened to she had them for years up there and , and when we cleared out the house I forget what we done with them . |
| 11 | ‘ Within two or three days of John Salako flying out to California for his knee operation , he had me for company on the same ward . |
| 12 | in the endland It was too far to go every day , so I went for the week , came home to the flat at weekends , She had squash , groundnuts , rows of beans on nylon lines She had me for the weeding . |
| 13 | But we already had plenty for the pan and the freezer too . |
| 14 | Not bathing for two days was no great inconvenience when he only had himself for company ; not shaving suited him fine when there was no woman to complain of beard burns . |
| 15 | You felt it ought to be because the feeling I had nobody for at least another generation would really have the roots in Harlow , that was looking at my children |
| 16 | Had she for instance dictated that the partner should offer resistance this would have been a relatively crude way of ‘ tightening ’ the structure compared with instructing the listener to be in a ‘ counsellor ’ role . |
| 17 | onion , owt like and apple pie owt like , I never had none for living memory ? |
| 18 | ‘ I just came to see if you had something for dinner , ’ she said . |
| 19 | On a Friday in January it is followed by Irish stew and cheese ( not for me , that menu , but Boulestin had something for everybody ) , on Saturday by cold ham and pressed beef , a hot purée of leeks with croutons as a separate course , and fruit . |
| 20 | I was glad to be able to say that we had something for them in return — we were bringing a distinguished visitor in the person of George Turner , a Llangollen stationmaster in BR days , before the line was closed . |
| 21 | Besides , I had something for her to do . |
| 22 | Just the same as he loved this woman of Samaria , and because he loved her he wanted to communicate with her , he wanted to share with her , he had something for her . |
| 23 | It had something for |
| 24 | It had one for last June 's European elections , but few prominent Greens have any clear idea of where they go now . |
| 25 | Maybe someone had one for sale and they 'd advertized in the papers . |
| 26 | Watson then had one for himself — Reeve lbw . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not the woman-hater who juggled eight women and kept lying to them all and kept them on a string and had one for every night , ’ he says . |
| 28 | You on commission or what ? ’ — I booked us in , though Jack was against it : ‘ I had one for insurance six years ago . |
| 29 | Well if I go on the premises , work with me and he 's trained like you had one for Steven . |
| 30 | Yes , er , no , yonks and yonks , yonks , yonks , yonks ago we had one for a it 's from them , absolutely ages ago So that 's that lot |