Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] had [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I was pulling on the worn satin slippers I thought of the new ones my sister had bought me for her wedding . |
| 2 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 3 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 4 | My sleep had done something for me . |
| 5 | It were real they were really good blankets my mother had bought them for us for er er wedding present |
| 6 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 7 | She took one last look at herself in the wardrobe mirror before she pulled on the sheepskin that her father had bought her for Christmas . |
| 8 | Nothing in her life had prepared her for this wanton fire , burning and aching inside her . |
| 9 | As she gathered up the bedding and cushions she had hung out of the windows to air before the evening earth began to exhale dew , she wondered whether she should fetch out her best mantilla , the white lace her mother had given her for her first communion , which she never wore because it seemed so showy , and had n't worn even yesterday for the Easter Mass . |
| 10 | When her father formed the view that the car he and her mother had bought her for her eighteenth birthday was more roadworthy than Cara 's outwardly smart but inwardly not so clever vehicle , it was decided that they would use her regularly serviced Volkswagen Polo for the trip . |
| 11 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 12 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 13 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 14 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 15 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 16 | His mother had nagged him for some time about entering his lodger 's room . |
| 17 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |