Example sentences of "had [verb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
| 2 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
| 3 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
| 4 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
| 5 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 6 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 7 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 8 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The producer Jerome Hellman had seen Dustin in Eh ? and had thought of him for the part way back then . |
| 11 | On the latter 's arrival , they had talked to him for a while and then he had gone off with them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She could n't face seeing that realisation in his eyes , for the sake of her own sanity had to get away — had to flee from him for a second time . |
| 14 | We explained that we had to do without them for the most part — and be tankful for the older ones and the women . |
| 15 | ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 18 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | People have been counted as spending all of the last year of their lives in residential homes if they had lived in one for a year or more . |
| 21 | 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 . |