Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the buyer of a new Nissan car had had it for less than three weeks and had made two or three short journeys in it for the purpose of trying it out , before the engine seized up because of a latent manufacturing fault . |
| 2 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 3 | Some man at the college had arranged it for her … she more or less admitted she 'd worked on him . ’ |
| 4 | First climbed in 1954 , this classic test-piece had inspired me for decades . |
| 5 | The incident with the muntjac doe had distracted him for a while but gradually the sense of exultation in his deeds of the previous evening returned and blotted everything else from his mind . |
| 6 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 7 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 8 | Palottino had no answer to that , any more than Zen himself , though the question had tormented him for the whole drive back to Perugia . |
| 9 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 10 | A member of the Club Animacion Team had volunteered me for the lilo race across the pool — the first prize a free drink — who could resist ! |
| 11 | My violin teacher had recommended it for chamber music , and when I found out that on one of the weeks the famous violinist , Ruggiero Ricci , would be there , I was certain that I would go . |
| 12 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 13 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 14 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 15 | GULF War hero Paul Butler , who saw two pals killed in the American ‘ friendly fire ’ attack , went berserk when he heard his wife had left him for another man . |
| 16 | They had started off friends but Joseph 's first wife had left him for Leary . |
| 17 | Others who were less impressed by what they knew about Law were surprised by what they discovered of his actual abilities , perhaps because his anonymity had prepared them for the worst . |
| 18 | Carolyn commented on them , and for once incurred Bryony 's pleased attention , as she explained how a friend had made them for her to an ancient design , and that unlike any shoes you could buy , they were made to last a lifetime , were completely healthy and natural , and did not threaten to deform the foot or posture in any way . |
| 19 | Nothing in his many years ' service had prepared him for this sort of situation . |
| 20 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |
| 21 | She could find only her chequebook and the small , leather-bound directory Jasper had given her for Christmas and into which , to gratify the child , she had painstakingly copied the addresses and phone numbers of friends accumulated throughout a lifetime . |
| 22 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 23 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 24 | His father had named him for the Mughal Babur , a conqueror , a hard drinking , hard riding Turk who loved poetry , laughter and gardens . |
| 25 | She took one last look at herself in the wardrobe mirror before she pulled on the sheepskin that her father had bought her for Christmas . |
| 26 | Her father had left them for a woman in France . |
| 27 | Delaunay felt that the basis of his art was ‘ simultaneous ’ contrasts of colour , a concept which he adopted from Chevreul , whose colour theory had interested him for some time . |
| 28 | 10 And after he had seen the vision , immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia , assuredly " gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them . |
| 29 | The woman had taunted him for his lack of passion and forthrightness and she had walked off with one of the young dockers . |
| 30 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |