Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 2 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 3 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 4 | I had fallen for the oldest James Brown/James Brown joke in the book . |
| 5 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 6 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 7 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 8 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 9 | I had felt for the first time a gnawing loneliness , finding echoes of familiar landscapes in the sweep of a glen , the gentle bend of a river . |
| 10 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 11 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 12 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 13 | Dean Acheson responded that the unhappy stalemate which had existed for a lengthy period could not be extended . |
| 14 | This brought the number of District Geologists in Edinburgh up to 3 , a repetition of the situation which had existed for a few years in the 1920s . |
| 15 | This represented a major concession on the part of the State of Cambodia ( SOC ) delegation , led by Hun Sen , the SOC Premier , which had pressed for a first-past-the-post system . |
| 16 | First , Parliament gave statutory recognition and reinforcement to the existing regime of contractual receivers appointed by debenture holders which had operated for the public benefit . |
| 17 | A fall off in world prices dampened the expectations of international creditor banks , which had hoped for a higher level of interest payments on Ecuador 's foreign debt ( estimated to be over US$12,000 million ) , as well as domestic hopes for increased social spending . |
| 18 | The opening ceremony on Feb. 19 of the National Assembly , which had convened for a 35-day session to elect Taiwan 's President , was disrupted by opposition Democratic Progressive Party ( DPP ) members protesting at " mainland " domination . |
| 19 | In the administrative sphere it decided to operate through the traditional élites which had worked for the Jordanian government . |
| 20 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 21 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 22 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 23 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 24 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 25 | That evening , as her mother had stood at the kitchen door with the shadow of future old age lurking behind her , she had felt for the first time what it was to be a grown-up , what it was that she was missing in the never-never land of Fenna 's spell . |
| 26 | Guilt and exhaustion is what she had felt for the next year . |
| 27 | During the headmistress 's speech she had realized for the first time how little she knew of the world that lay beyond the school gates . |
| 28 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 29 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 30 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |