Example sentences of "i had [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that 's why I like children — because there was always somebody smaller than me and I had to do everything for them really when I was younger — feed them , change their nappies … |
| 2 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 3 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 4 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 5 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 6 | Unused as I am to public scribbling , and tardy to boot ( I 've just read your December/January issue ) , I felt I had to thank you for saving me time and trouble ( not to mention hard-won shekels ) , in a search for something which obviously does not exist . |
| 7 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 8 | I had felt it for my mother before my father left when she would intercept his post , putting certain violet-scented envelopes into the pocket of her dress and steaming them open in the kitchen after he had left for work . |
| 9 | I had invited him for a meal , and he left around midnight . ’ |
| 10 | What was this very special place that only a few hours ago I had cursed myself for entering ? |
| 11 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 12 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 13 | I had bought her for a song , then spent a fortune restoring her and , when my term of service expired and I could afford to become the gypsy-sailor I had always wanted to be , I left the Marines and made Masquerade my new home . |
| 14 | Another part in the book that I did n't understand until I had read it for the second time was a bit right at the every end . |
| 15 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 16 | When I had left him for Bath , he had said , sadly , seeing me off at Salamanca station : ‘ I should have come with you when your father died . |
| 17 | Progress was painfully slow ; I had owned her for a year before she wagged her tail at me . |
| 18 | And I took it and slew them all : seven thousand warriors and old men , together with women and old women and maidens , for I had consecrated it for Ashtar-Chemosh . ’ |
| 19 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 20 | You were thinking that I had married her for her money , and that she 'd married me for … all the wrong reasons . |
| 21 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 22 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 23 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 24 | The medical profession were n't the fools I had taken them for . |
| 25 | ‘ As a matter of fact , I had taken it for granted that you would n't want a boring old fart like me trailing after you round Siena . ’ |
| 26 | He then provided : ‘ I wish whatever legacies I have left to be paid by you , my dear son , and if any debt shall emerge , if I had borrowed anything for a time and shall owe it , I wish it to be paid by you , so that what I have left your sister may pass to her undiminished . ’ |
| 27 | Mum always opened the letters but I had to read them for her . |