Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe put them all back where he had found them for Scales to look at . |
| 2 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 3 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 4 | Once home — and although she had eaten nothing for several hours — Annette found that she could not face the thought of a meal , even though her husband offered to prepare one for her . |
| 5 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 6 | Mingling with that of David was Anthony 's , sounding far happier and more relaxed than she had heard it for weeks . |
| 7 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 8 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 9 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 10 | He wondered if she had abandoned him for ever . |
| 11 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 12 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 13 | She said she had seen the programme and wondered if it had spoiled anything for me , but I was able to reassure her that it had improved my life . |
| 14 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 15 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 16 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 17 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 18 | Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house . |
| 19 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 20 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 21 | I pushed the bloody bitch into it after she had cursed me for not handing over every penny in my pockets ! |
| 22 | Five hours later officers admitted the £9,000 Bedford Astra had gone missing before they had checked it for fingerprints . |
| 23 | After it had trapped him for the third time , he ordered all the cages to be thrown into the sea . |
| 24 | Critical also of the World Cup organisation , and referring to the umpiring in West Indies as ‘ disgraceful ’ , this agonising cricketer , who came from nowhere at 18 , spotted by Javed Miandad , seems greatly perturbed still at the £1000 fine extracted from him for swearing within the hearing of umpire Plews after he had banned him for bowling bouncers against Warwickshire . |
| 25 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 26 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 27 | And I took it and slew them all : seven thousand warriors and old men , together with women and old women and maidens , for I had consecrated it for Ashtar-Chemosh . ’ |
| 28 | With surprise , Juliet realised he was referring to his hospital episode , when she had nursed him for the last two weeks of his stay . |
| 29 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 30 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |