Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had also arranged for a small box of hand-made chocolates to be given to each of them upon departure . |
| 2 | If my memory serves me correctly , he had also worked for a while in the office of a chartered accountant , but to no avail . |
| 3 | It was something he had not felt for a very long time . |
| 4 | He had not shaved for a day or two , and there was fair stubble on his cheeks and jaw . |
| 5 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |
| 6 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 7 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 8 | He made himself a mixed grill , something he had n't had for a long time , and followed it with real coffee . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He felt tempted to continue through the village to visit the young Prince at Woodstock Palace but , considering what he had just learnt , thought he had better wait for a while . |
| 11 | Within minutes of Cantona signing for United last week , sources at Leeds revealed that he had twice asked for a move , and stormed out of Elland Road only days before his £1.2 million transfer . |
| 12 | He had only to go for a spin with Freddie Reynalde or spend half an hour too long in the pub for her shoulders to slump and her eyes to fill . |