Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 2 | And I had developed respect for these beautiful predators . |
| 3 | But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them . |
| 4 | I had known Katharine for many years , and , in common with other members of the Kingman Committee , I had been impressed by her presentation when she appeared before us to answer questions . |
| 5 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 6 | Nevertheless Axelrod worked out that , if only somebody had submitted Tit for Two Tats , it would have won the tournament . |
| 7 | Bush had blocked or vetoed two bills before finally agreeing to a compromise formula which had extended benefits for 13 or 20 weeks beyond the standard 26 weeks of benefits provided under state unemployment programmes [ see pp. 38428 ; 38521 ; 38568 ] . |
| 8 | Mother Catherine , the mother superior , a spritely 85-year-old American , said there had never been a case of food poisoning associated with eggs from the monastery , which had kept flocks for 20 years . |
| 9 | He points a finger at my unspeakable carpet , which had escaped mention for many chapters and would continue to do so for those remaining . |
| 10 | The party which had ruled France for ten of the past 12 years was in a state of ruin . |
| 11 | The broadcast , which featured Mr Hurd , Foreign Secretary , and Mr Heseltine , Environment Secretary , acknowledged there had been a recession which had caused pain for some people . |
| 12 | None the less , the spirit which had animated plans for post-war construction did not die away in the interwar years . |
| 13 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 14 | and she had to ask Reception for another vase because the first one was full up . |
| 15 | She had kept students for seven years now , and was known as one of the university 's favoured landladies . |
| 16 | One of these documents had informed her that she was to be attached to a Mr Victor Wilcox , Managing Director of J. Pringle & Sons , for one day a week during the remainder of the winter term , and she had chosen Wednesdays for this undertaking since it was the day she normally kept free from teaching . |
| 17 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 18 | Never before had they failed to meet her , and now , when she had left school for good , they had not come . |
| 19 | Joseph M. McDade , a Republican congressman who had represented Pennsylvania for 30 years , was on May 5 charged with racketeering , conspiracy and falsifying his financial disclosure statements . |
| 20 | His father King Henry II was a Frenchman from Anjou , the descendant of a long line of counts who had ruled Anjou for two hundred and fifty years . |
| 21 | A fatal submassive necrosis that occurred in a 68 year old lady who had received piroxicam for 15 months is described . |
| 22 | One-half of the trainees had derived more confidence from attending courses , ranging from ‘ now being able to feed lambs through a stomach tube ’ ( this from a 50-year old farmer who had had sheep for 30 years ) to ‘ the confidence to tackle all but the most difficult workshop repair jobs ’ . |
| 23 | The decision , taken in the presence of the current Minister of Religion Nicolae Stoicescu ( an old acquaintence of Teoctist who had shared responsibility for religious affairs under Ceausescu ) , was not universally welcomed . |
| 24 | While third party developments such as the Hercules graphics cards helped relieve this situation they complicated the life of the software developers who had to provide drivers for each and every variation . |
| 25 | The likelihood of a hard-up , poorly-paid soldier who had left town for good ever returning to pay his debts was negligible . |
| 26 | Sometimes you had to get sandwiches for other people 's lunch and run errands , deliver clothes . |
| 27 | We had a wholesalers of course we had to get wholesalers for some things . |
| 28 | We had to have masks for this . |
| 29 | There was a very affected couple , Erwin and Pam , who were expert at creaming off the best for themselves — and as they were in their mid-thirties , they had had time for some practice . |
| 30 | He gave the pope an account of the evidence that had been brought forward , giving first place , and by far the greatest amount of space , to the testimony of Bede 's Ecclesiastical History , which showed that the archbishops of Canterbury , acting on the authority of Pope Gregory I and his successors , had exercised general authority over the whole of the British Isles during the first hundred and forty years of its existence : they had consecrated bishops for all parts of the country , summoned councils , deposed unworthy bishops , and had been generally responsible for spreading Catholic discipline into Wales and Scotland . |