Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] for [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The ideas of Russian Formalism survived , however , in the work of the Prague Linguistic Circle , one of whose founders , Roman Jakobson , had left Moscow for Czechoslovakia in 1920 .
2 Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court .
3 Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera .
4 This community of some 25,000 Albanian Moslems had fled Greece for Albania in October 1944 .
5 Many thousands more , including the Republican government and most of the leading political figures , had fled Spain for exile in Europe , the Americas and the Soviet Union .
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