Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twelve days before her death Mrs Gilfoyle had started maternity leave from the Champion Spark Plug factory , where she had worked for 17 years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Robinson , made redundant by the takeover of Camerons Brewery , where he had worked for 19 years , will continue to play for West for the rest of the season . |
| 4 | Even in cases in the past , where he had looked for one and found none , he had always felt if he had searched harder or been luckier , then the answer would have been found . |
| 5 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 6 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 9 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 10 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 11 | Looking back , she could see that she had married for all the wrong reasons . |
| 12 | Elizabeth retired a little earlier than she had planned for domestic reasons but says that she intends to keep in touch with colleagues . |
| 13 | She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years , her head full of horrific accidents . |
| 14 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |
| 15 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 16 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 17 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 18 | He had converted one of the outhouses into a sort of workshop where he tinkered with a collection of small engines , antique lighting plants and water pumps that he had bought for next to nothing at country auctions over the years . |
| 19 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 20 | If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked . |
| 21 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 22 | ‘ They would not have to wait until they had worked for two years before being eligible for unemployment and sickness benefit or parental leave . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ’ And he had stood for several minutes in the passage , paralysed with embarrassment , and shame and chagrin . |
| 25 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 26 | All his family had died and he had walked for two days without food to find aid . |
| 27 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 28 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 29 | But he had wished for more than that . |
| 30 | Whistling in the wind , that had been , because they had settled for half , and never recovered from the shame of behaving in the same way as the typists and fitters and laboratory assistants . |