Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 2 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
| 3 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 4 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 5 | We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women . |
| 6 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 7 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 8 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 9 | He was honest enough to admit that he had to rely on me for the practical side of the business , and gave me a good rise in pay . |