Example sentences of "he had [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overheads continued to be minimal when , after four months , he moved from Cheshire , where he had temporarily alighted for personal reasons , to Barnoldswick in Lancashire . |
| 2 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
| 3 | We can quickly dispose of the most obvious zone fossil , the king himself , in that he had already lived for 60 years before his era began and we have seen that his era is commonly regarded as lasting several years after his extinction . |
| 4 | Rufus , sleek with love and ardent spirits , thought with wonder about how he had actually imagined for all of ten minutes that the house they talked about in the Standard might be Wyvis Hall . |
| 5 | He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel . |