Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 2 | At the end of the formal presentation not all had joined us for the stomach churners , preferring to get to the office and start selling those new protection contracts . |
| 3 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 4 | Previously he had blamed her for the lack of sexual satisfaction she gave him , experiencing her as semi-frigid and totally unexciting . |
| 5 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 6 | Her duties as parents had been completed , she had prepared them for the future , they could now stand on their own feet , so she let them go . |
| 7 | Nothing in my upbringing had prepared me for the weather , much less the absurd notion of hitchhiking . |
| 8 | Nothing Isa Blagden had said had prepared her for the fright . |
| 9 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 10 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 11 | They had to choose someone for the launching ceremony and our child 's name was first out of the hat . |
| 12 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 13 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 14 | The other girls , knowing quite well that she had done it for the benefit of one Geoffrey A. Machin , were shocked and admiring , but the convention restrained them from expressing either shock or admiration . |
| 15 | They had done it for the joy of creating , without having to look over their shoulder at the censor . |
| 16 | in the information so we had to we had to assume one for the purpose of public consultation but we said that the final decision on standards would be taken er in another time . |
| 17 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 18 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 19 | She had cared nothing for the man who was attacking her then ; her despair now was because she could not bear the caresses of the man whom she loved , and she knew loved her . |
| 20 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 21 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 22 | He wanted to know whether Wickham had arrested anyone for the murder because until then he could not face going to work . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was obvious that this was where Harry Mack had settled himself for the night . |
| 26 | Harry had settled himself for the night and then felt the need for a drink of water . |
| 27 | In effect , God had declared himself for the English and against the French . |
| 28 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 29 | ‘ For some reason he was adamant that he simply had to have me for the make-up on the new play he 's doing . ’ |
| 30 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |