Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 2 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 3 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 4 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 5 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 6 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 7 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 8 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 9 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 10 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 11 | After all , she had suspected for a long time now that he was aware of the effect he sometimes had on her . |
| 12 | She had hoped for a new freedom , but had found a trap . |
| 13 | But Winnie , in all , though glad he was sick , that he had not jilted her , would have much preferred a broken leg — she had hoped for a broken leg — than the way he was , like those newsreel horrors : Hitler 's Jews , like something out of Belsen . |
| 14 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 15 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 16 | She had worked for a bent company running credit checks on people , had temped for an employment agency , a bank , and as a telephonist . |
| 17 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 18 | She hoped it would throw Maurin off guard , persuade him she had come for a little of his flirtatious conversation at the least , a few more questions about Durance and Sabine Jourdain at the most . |
| 19 | They had asked for a greater number of " peacekeeping forces " to be sent , although Sahnoun on Aug. 12 was to emphasize that the proposed deployment was not to be regarded as a peacekeeping operation , but was to protect food distribution . |
| 20 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 21 | And so , after they 'd just slipped off to the local registery office in the city , they had left for a brief honeymoon in Paris . |
| 22 | It had made for a lively few hours but now that they 'd gone the place seemed oddly , unnaturally quiet again . |
| 23 | Britain had played a major part in the Bretton Woods agreement which , through the establishment of the International Monetary Fund , led to a major role for sterling as a reserve currency [ Eckes , 1975 ] ; and in 1945 , after considerable debate , it had opted for a large US loan ( $3.75bn plus $650m in settlement of Lend-Lease obligations ) as against tighter domestic restrictions on consumption , to help to overcome post-war shortages of goods and materials . |
| 24 | Perhaps — it had seemed for a short while — she herself might leave him . |
| 25 | He had hoped for a critical reexamination of the field . |
| 26 | He needed to compare his ledger 's statistics with the industry averages/norm , and he had hoped for a concentrated sample from their trade association , but no such luck . |
| 27 | If he had hoped for a gentle introduction to the life of the School , he was soon to be disappointed , for 1978 was to be the year in which far-reaching changes were to be set in motion . |
| 28 | The Attorney General , Eligio Hernández , appealed to the High Court against the search warrant , and said in a statement on Nov. 19 that he had applied for a Constitutional Court ruling on the legality of Judge Marino Barbero 's actions . |
| 29 | Fignon said in a statement that he had asked for a second test at a different laboratory but his request had been turned down . |
| 30 | He had asked for a new security system for Lowermoor but was refused on cost grounds . |