Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 2 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 3 | My breath smoked and I began to feel the wind-chill even through my sailing jersey and the special anorak I had bought for southern latitudes . |
| 4 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 5 | And excessive centralisation had often been the fault of the republics and regions themselves , which had competed for major investments by offering to reduce spending on social requirements . |
| 6 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 7 | Di wrote to her after the ceremony thanking her for all the work she had done for fellow cancer sufferers and for raising £40,000 towards the centre . |
| 8 | The crisis-ridden years of 1961–2 had dampened the optimism of those who had hoped for new initiatives to end the Cold War . |
| 9 | The pumping was said to be done by Germans , faultlessly disguised as British officers , or even , it had been whispered , by genuine British officers who had fallen for German propaganda . |
| 10 | This last-minute addition went some way to satisfying the psychiatric lobby who had pressed for continuing health authority control . |
| 11 | Arafat 's stance of " positive neutrality " had been criticized by more militant leaders , who had pressed for military support for Iraq and the opening of a " second front " against Israel in Lebanon or the occupied territories . |
| 12 | UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , who had appealed for international aid on May 3 , made a subsequent emergency appeal on May 17 for $168,000,000 . |
| 13 | They worked steadily , dealing first with patients who had come for audio testing , an important part of the health screening programmes that were regularly carried out on members of the workforce . |
| 14 | But when it arose in the 16th Century , it simply denoted a man who had opted for worldly pleasure by marrying , in contrast to a cleric who stayed celibate . |
| 15 | Many of the most committed Calvinists , who had wrestled for lengthy periods with the doctrine of predestination before finally convincing themselves of the assuredness of their salvation , reacted with fury and outrage to Arminius 's teachings , and in the United Provinces the resulting theological controversy provoked a major political crisis , culminating in the defeat of the Arminians at the Synod of Dort in 1618 . |
| 16 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 17 | Many years before we had looked for red kites , on a spring camping holiday in the valley of the River Tywi . |
| 18 | They had embraced for mutual comfort . |
| 19 | At the very first meeting in St Margaret 's Hope village hall they had asked for monetary pledges , at the second meeting in the local school they said it was time to call in those promises and start counting the cash . |
| 20 | Round about the time of the miners ' ballot , hospital workers were holding meetings in South Yorkshire hospitals where only months earlier they had voted for all-out strike action . |
| 21 | On his arrival , he had asked for hot water to be brought up to his room at nine sharp the next morning , but the sight of one of the young servant girls struggling up the stairs from the kitchen with the huge kettle of boiling water had made him feel so guilty and ashamed he had not asked again . |
| 22 | The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid . |
| 23 | Wood died 19 December 1865 at 49 Sussex Gardens , Hyde Park , London , where he had gone for medical advice , and was buried in the churchyard at Hetton . |
| 24 | A great mimic , he had developed for English society an accent which outclassed the Brits around him . |
| 25 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |
| 26 | He had worked for various firms doing all sorts of jobs , for he was nothing if not adaptable , and recently , just as he was approaching retirement , the firm he worked for in Deptford had become bankrupt . |
| 27 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |