Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [pron] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had withheld my tears for too long . |
| 2 | I had written my reasons for so thinking ; but as they were not satisfactory to the other noble and learned Lords who heard the case , I do not now repeat them nor persist in them . |
| 3 | She glanced in the mirror and declared I had wrecked her eyes for the rest of the day . |
| 4 | I had to rack my brains for ways to force you to wed me . |
| 5 | As the chair is attached to Corpus Christi College , she had to resign her Fellowship at Somerville , where she had taught our biochemists for over twenty years . |
| 6 | Watching Ryan 's face , she had to give him points for courage . |
| 7 | She had learned her lines for her final scenes from her sick bed . |
| 8 | You had to close your eyes for the Lord 's Prayer . |
| 9 | Once we had got our jobs for the morning we set about then eagerly as everything had to be perfect right down to the last detail . |
| 10 | It had haunted his dreams for eight years . |
| 11 | There was only one way in , by the drawbridge and the gate-towers ; he had racked his brains for an alternative , but there was none , short of procuring an ally within the walls , and that idea he did not entertain for a moment . |
| 12 | A Ugandan pathologist studying African cancer trends was sceptical of Zimbabwe 's high lung cancer figures compared with other African nations until he had checked our records for himself . |
| 13 | He had understood her feelings for Andrew ; he could n't comprehend her reasons for marrying Lovat . |
| 14 | It was the first time any one of them had asked her reasons for wanting to come across and see the New Year in , and she answered , ‘ Some men 's do , I suppose . ’ |