Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd applied for Mastermind in three previous years but was unsuccessful and even had an audition in 1989 . ’ |
| 2 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 3 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 4 | ‘ It was the first speech I 'd made for ages . |
| 5 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 6 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 7 | So that black top that sweatshirt top that I 'd got for Lee , it was seventeen ninety nine , you got that for thirteen pounds , forty five erm thirty two pound off . |
| 8 | The note I 'd left for Tremayne , ‘ GONE OUT WITH HARRY , BACK FOR GRUB was still pinned to the corkboard . |
| 9 | I had one of the best nights I 'd had for ages , and slept through the rest of the ebb and the whole of the flood . |
| 10 | When I left school , which was in nineteen thirty , it was a bad time for employment , there was a lot of unemploy unemployed people and I tried and tried and eventually I was offered a job at the Bloxwich Lock and Stamping Company in Bell Lane Alexander works , it was er er Squires 's were , er it 's a family er er concern , and erm it was the first offer I 'd had for employment so I took it . |
| 11 | It 's the nagging curse which afflicts all consumers — lingering doubts after you get it home , like ‘ should I have opted for Brand X instead of Brand Y ’ . |
| 12 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 13 | But I had to search for Vietnam . |
| 14 | It was with deep regret that I had to leave for home later that evening . |
| 15 | I had met him a couple of times , and he had submitted a paper I had written for publication in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 16 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 17 | I had to understudy for Prospero , one year , and still remember large chunks of the beautiful Tempest verse . |
| 18 | ‘ Sorry to be so long — I had to wait for Tom to finish a phone call . ’ |
| 19 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 20 | I had hoped for Eric 's face , or some further clue about what was going to happen , but I got nothing . |
| 21 | It feels cold : I had hoped for spring but what I am finding is winter . |
| 22 | Although I had hoped for justice and understanding when my story was known , that was not to be . |
| 23 | One minute dangling on the end of a rope ; the next a reprieve , a bumpy ride through Paris , followed by the sweetest bread and most fragrant wine I had tasted for months . |
| 24 | What I had mistaken for affectation was nothing but concentration . |
| 25 | I was happier than I had felt for months . |
| 26 | Then you walked into my life , and I suddenly realised that what I had felt for Claire may have been sexual attraction , but it was never love . ’ |
| 27 | I had to go for consumption . |
| 28 | Just a few miles North of Annesley the engine failed on the Tibshelf bank , so I had to go for assistance . |
| 29 | Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me . |
| 30 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |