Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] [pron] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
| 2 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 3 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 4 | I was ashamed of what I had let myself in for with Jean-Claude . |
| 5 | And I had taken it entirely for granted . |
| 6 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 7 | When Mrs Funnell had visited him , she had upbraided him firmly for his deception and he , in his most plaintive voice , had said , ‘ I 'm a man , and it was either taking a decent woman or resorting to casual encounters . |
| 8 | She could n't go out and play with the other kids , she had to take him round for a walk |
| 9 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
| 10 | Earnest me anyway slightly hankered alter another Italian boy , Joseph , who had invited me out for a walk . |
| 11 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 12 | And what would his heart tell him about the gods , who had singled him out for this fate ? |
| 13 | Karen crawled into a sleeping bag at three o'clock , having last seen Jessica deep in conversation with a blonde-haired willowy type with beard and pipe who had pursued her earnestly for several hours . |
| 14 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 15 | ‘ But I wish we had played it more for comedy — it was too depressing . |
| 16 | We went our separate ways , both recognizing that we had to psych ourselves up for the race . |
| 17 | In fact he confirmed it so strongly that we had pulled ourselves together for a few days . |
| 18 | still got Bill as previously arranged but we had to find somebody else for Jack . |
| 19 | I had this idea they had booked me in for a Caesarean because I 'm small , but had n't told me . |
| 20 | Because they had to keep him there for so damn long in this inquiry er the senate inquiry and all the stuff on the Lusitania . |
| 21 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 22 | He had to hold her one-handed for a moment , and to hold her steady even though she was fighting him hard . |
| 23 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 24 | As the two sections of the bridge rose majestically into the air somehow it felt as if he had arranged it especially for her . |
| 25 | He had wanted her only for one night . |
| 26 | He had asked her only for what he needed , though there must be many blunter questions he could have put to her had he been so minded . |
| 27 | She should have been more concerned , more anxious to know what he had to confide , since he had invited her here for that very purpose . |
| 28 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 29 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 30 | Hutton took a drop in salary to join Durham , and he wondered what he had let himself in for when , after a battering from Franklyn Stephenson , he had to leave the field to be sick . |