Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 2 | But it was n't until Ellen came to pick him up that he discovered that she had already bought everything for a picnic lunch . |
| 3 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 4 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 5 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 6 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 7 | The old gag had n't fooled them for a minute . |
| 8 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 9 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 10 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 11 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 12 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 13 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 14 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 15 | The smell of the plates of food as they were borne past had been tantalising and caused pangs of hunger to strike Meredith 's stomach as though she had n't eaten anything for a week . |
| 16 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 17 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |