Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 2 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 3 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 4 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 5 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 6 | Before he had become involved with Sien he had used her for some time as a model . |
| 7 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 8 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |