Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 3 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 4 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 5 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 6 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 7 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 8 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 9 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 10 | He had been found asleep on the floor of a taxi outside a night club and claimed he had hired it for the evening as his bedroom . |
| 11 | One thing she had to say about Dad , at least he had prepped her for the world she was going to have to live in . |
| 12 | He had to prepare them for the study of Old English ( Anglo-Saxon ) , Middle English ( that is , the language and literature of England from about 1200 until 1450 , including Chaucer ) and all the remaining periods of English literature up to the Victorian period . |