Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wharton said : ‘ It is something that I must overcome , I had trained for 12 rounds and was thinking of the crowd instead of doing the job I was in the ring to do . ’ |
| 2 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 3 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 4 | I had fished for half an hour when I felt the line tighten . |
| 5 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 6 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 7 | It was mid-morning when we set out nervously along the coast road on the first two-wheeled motor I had ridden for 20 years . |
| 8 | I had hoped for better from Premier and Div 1 paddlers . |
| 9 | I had hoped for better than this . |
| 10 | I had hoped for thirty on the paved road to bump up the average before the open desert at Adrar . |
| 11 | The army had said we would average fifteen , but I had hoped for eighteen and had told them so . |
| 12 | I had hoped for some characteristic entry in his unflaggingly ironic Dictionnaire des idées reçues ; but it jumps pointedly from cognac to coitus . |
| 13 | Following your excellent exposé of our ambiguous one , and Danny Baker 's candid assessment of the Boy In The Bubble , I had hoped for more than the arselicking articles printed . |
| 14 | ‘ I had hoped for more , I must confess , Rain . |
| 15 | I had hoped for weeping willows , cedars of Lebanon , Lombardy poplars , seaweeds , perhaps deer antlers . |
| 16 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 17 | The director of studies , an obnoxious little shit who knew exactly where we both stood , received me in audience after I had waited for three-quarters of an hour . |
| 18 | All through tea I had waited for some indication on his part that he knew I had seen the girl — as he must have known , for it was obvious that the nocturnal concert had been given to announce her presence . |
| 19 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 20 | As the white cliffs of Dover receded and the coast of France drew near , the inimitable excitement of ‘ abroad ’ took hold of me for the first time — the only really positive emotion I had felt for twenty-six months . |
| 21 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 22 | In order to continue postgraduate studies I had applied for some financial assistance for part-time fees , under a scheme created by the Home Office and set up specifically in recognition of a lack of higher educational qualifications in the police service ( HO Circular 29/74 ) . |
| 23 | I had gone for that X-ray in a state of anxious calm . |
| 24 | I had gone for further studies to Pakistan and I got married there . |
| 25 | My breath smoked and I began to feel the wind-chill even through my sailing jersey and the special anorak I had bought for southern latitudes . |
| 26 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 27 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 28 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 29 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 30 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |