Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv prt] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith 's early demise opened the door for the much-anticipated return of David Gower , who had flown down for the Wimbledon men 's final in something other than a Tiger Moth the day before . |
| 2 | ‘ I have n't actually met Frank yet ; he was appointed after we had broken up for the summer , ’ said Black . |
| 3 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | They toasted Keith and me ( Keith had come up for the day to join in ) and bought us a slow cooker for our new home . |
| 5 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 6 | Toby had come back for the moment . |
| 7 | Now , as they left the shuttle lounge at Heathrow , mixed in with the commuters and shoppers who had come down for the day , Adam saw the tail . |
| 8 | The smile had come out for the landlord , and disappeared when he had left the room . |
| 9 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 10 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 11 | Neural linkage , brain to brain and brain to computer , was old science , had been pushed to the limit in the years before mankind had reached out for the stars . |
| 12 | He launched a great shout of : ‘ Espérance Percy ! ’ behind him , waved a hand at the squire who carried his guidon , settled his lance , and plunged headlong down into the river at the ford they had marked out for the centre , and out again in a flurry of muddy spray on the levels beyond , with the whole company of his knights and squires and mounted men-at-arms hurtling after him . |
| 13 | Andrew Green , the present lord of the manor , and his wife had driven up for the day from Essex . |
| 14 | He told them about Marylebone , the night at the hotel , the terms Zack had laid down for the rendezvous , and how he had just made the deadline . |
| 15 | You would not have supposed it possible to aid the Communist cause by stripping , yet Gypsy Rose Lee was banned because years before she had spoken up for the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League . |
| 16 | The policeman had been genuinely pleased by the invitation , and the two had set off for the river . |
| 17 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 18 | Farther south in Aswan , security sources said militants had hit back for the storming of the mosque with at least three bomb attacks on police and the fire brigade . |
| 19 | Their room was in darkness and he had to fumble about for the switch to the bedside lamps . |
| 20 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |
| 21 | The driver of the van had been wanted for questioning , and the way CI5 had gone in for the arrest had clearly been the direct cause of the van 's destruction on the hot end of the booby-trap bomb it had been carrying . |
| 22 | What I had meant to say was that he was being inducted as a churchwarden , and the two of them had gone off for the ceremony — my friend was having a busy day ! |
| 23 | At teatime , there was honey , sour-milk scones and plum jam where you had to mind out for the stones . |
| 24 | Henrietta , tall for her age and spectacularly thin , stood by them in the bikini she had put on for the sunshine and the wand , hovering round the crowd , finally pointed at her . |
| 25 | Lending the lie to the sceptics that saw no hope of NeXT Computer Inc winning any significant licensees for its object-oriented NeXTstep environment now that the company has abandoned its hardware side , the company yesterday announced that three blue chip names , Hewlett-Packard Co , Dell Computer Corp and Data General Corp had signed up for the NeXTstep 486 version . |
| 26 | His mother always looked as if she had dressed up for the occasion , which indeed she had . |
| 27 | But Nuadu had ridden out for the king and for the captured half-brother he had never known . |
| 28 | An endless stream of proposals had poured in for the £20 million a year it had to dispense . |
| 29 | I had to make up for the ravages of time . |
| 30 | They looked into one another 's eyes , and kissed with a great tenderness , as though they had to make up for the anger last time . |