Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to sit there watching it for days to keep away the dogs and chickens and stop the crows and vultures swooping down and snatching it away . ’ |
| 2 | as if sensing that she had given up fighting him for the present , fitzAlan released her immediately , frowning down at her distraught face . |
| 3 | The ruling was made in the case of Jairo Jonathan Elias Zacarias who had fled from Guatemala in 1987 after guerrillas had attempted forcibly to recruit him for military service . |
| 4 | It made sense and yet he had learned never to take anything for granted in this game . |
| 5 | The 44-year-old composer said : ‘ When they let me know they could not afford to pay more than £6 million , I realised we had to step in to save it for the nation . |