Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 2 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 3 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 4 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 5 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 6 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 7 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 8 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 9 | I had hoped for a conference with the Turkish and Greek Governments and representatives of the two communities . |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 11 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 12 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 13 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 14 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 15 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 16 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 17 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 18 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 19 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 20 | I had to go for a piss . |
| 21 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 22 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 23 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |
| 24 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list . |
| 26 | She had already spent an hour weeding and was determined to uproot a particularly tough dandelion ; then coffee , then the weekend shopping and then off to the sailing club where she had enrolled for a course of lessons in board-sailing . |
| 27 | Clare was fired for turning up late after she had to wait for a doctor because Josh had a temperature . |
| 28 | Dana did n't come to the showroom either ; she had appeared for a fitting and for a rehearsal , as she had promised , neither of which had been an outstanding success . |
| 29 | But she had to battle for a York neck victory from Satank and trainer Jack Berry said : ‘ She ran well , but looked to be going over the top . |
| 30 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |