Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 2 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 3 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 4 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 5 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 6 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 7 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 8 | He saw and understood that she had prepared herself for him . |
| 9 | The offender had a dispute with the victim as a result of the sale by her of his car : the offender claimed that she had sold it for less than it was worth , and had not paid over to him his proper share in the proceeds of the sale . |
| 10 | He pushed through the swing doors and was gone , leaving her close to tears and frantically worried that she had upset him for ever . |
| 11 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 12 | Mingling with that of David was Anthony 's , sounding far happier and more relaxed than she had heard it for weeks . |
| 13 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 14 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 15 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 16 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 17 | He had sworn at her , jeered at her , called her a lump of cold batter , told her to get to the devil , told her that he was sick of the sight of her , that he had married her for her money , that if she gave him any more of her canting preaching he 'd hit her one that she 'd remember . |
| 18 | The absurd fact was that he had married her for her gaiety . |
| 19 | Bert was full of praise for the quality of craftsmanship on the example which he had when they first came out ( he was one of the six guitarists on the committee involved in the design of Höfner 's ‘ Committee ’ guitar ) , and told us that he had used one for a couple of his hits — Big Beat Boogie and Sorry Robbie … |
| 20 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
| 21 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 22 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 23 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 24 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 25 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 26 | ‘ Penny for them , ’ said Adam , when they were halfway through the meal and she had said nothing for a while . |
| 27 | He wondered if she had abandoned him for ever . |
| 28 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 29 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 30 | He was obviously Garry 's brother-in-law and he had mistaken her for Dana . |