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

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1 and she had to ask Reception for another vase because the first one was full up .
2 She had kept students for seven years now , and was known as one of the university 's favoured landladies .
3 One of these documents had informed her that she was to be attached to a Mr Victor Wilcox , Managing Director of J. Pringle & Sons , for one day a week during the remainder of the winter term , and she had chosen Wednesdays for this undertaking since it was the day she normally kept free from teaching .
4 Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven .
5 Never before had they failed to meet her , and now , when she had left school for good , they had not come .
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