Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk .
2 She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington .
3 You had to go ashore for that .
4 What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know .
5 We had pressed hard for these and the Inspector eventually agreed to a series at four different venues .
6 There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were .
7 Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 .
8 They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre .
9 Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse .
10 In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority .
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