Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had also asked for a chair-lift and a motorised wheelchair , which have not arrived . |
| 2 | I had once played for a Media XI against the local club . |
| 3 | In November 1990 , rather than seek re-election , she had unsuccessfully challenged for a Senate seat , running against the incumbent Democrat Paul Simon . |
| 4 | She turned to the door , almost shivering with nerves as she heard the rapid flow of French from the hall and knew that now she was about to meet the woman she had unconsciously hated for the whole of her life . |
| 5 | She had sometimes longed for the anonymity of London , and now felt doubly guilty for the thought . |
| 6 | Since then she had sometimes looked for the moon again in that dark , usually empty space but had never seen it . |
| 7 | On the morning she was expected in the office for the signing ceremony , Stephen Navin , Virgin 's lawyer , telephoned the singer 's lawyers , only to learn that she had actually signed for a larger sum to CBS the day before . |
| 8 | From under her huge hat and the light grey veil she had thoughtfully donned for the occasion Jane Postlethwaite regarded them steadily . |
| 9 | She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party . |
| 10 | Besides , she had always hankered for a job in uniform . |
| 11 | Otherwise she had only praise for the beautiful island . |
| 12 | In the immortal phrase that heralds so many climbs , we had just gone for a look . |
| 13 | We had previously gone for a somewhat broader base to the business for perfectly good reasons . |
| 14 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 15 | When we had all assembled for the first plenary session to approve the agenda , I was all ready with my dissenting speech when it was announced by the Secretary General that the additional items would be included in the agenda if the other matters already there were completed in time to consider additional ones . |
| 16 | They had both hoped for a classic siege manoeuvre : a complete blockade of supplies , followed when the city was weak by an assault over ditches infilled by themselves , and preceded by feints , night attacks and heavy bombardment . |
| 17 | It was not clear from the report whether they had even applied for the available student loan or help from their college 's access fund . |
| 18 | If they had all gone for a midnight swim , we would have had the worst slick since the Torrey Canyon . |
| 19 | Why would a maker fit DR-DOS , when it had already paid for a copy of a Microsoft system ? |
| 20 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 21 | Chattopadhyay had served as a Minister under Indira Gandhi in the 1970s ; following the November 1989 Lok Sabha elections he had unsuccessfully called for the resignation of Rajiv Gandhi as Congress ( I ) leader and had eventually resigned from the party . |
| 22 | A rugby blue , he had also played for the Barbarians . |
| 23 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 24 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 25 | He had just paid for the whisky when the door blew open , and a huge Irishman staggered into the establishment . |
| 26 | God , thought Dalziel as he had frequently thought for the past twenty years , you 're the most miserable-looking bugger I ever saw . |
| 27 | He had previously worked for the firm and was due to go back to it . |
| 28 | John could easily believe it ; be remembered how , when he was walking the route of that particular line , he had once asked for a glass of water at a cottage and been charged eightpence for it . |
| 29 | He had once fought for the French , but they had not promoted him beyond the rank of colonel , she had deserted to the British who had rewarded his defection with a knighthood and a generalship , but even so , he still felt slighted . |
| 30 | He had often wished for an opportunity to try out this splendid tool in peaceful days gone by . |