Example sentences of "he had [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to see it for himself . |
| 2 | He had to do something for her . |
| 3 | It was n't until almost his last breath that he told her of the board beneath his bed and what was under it , assuring her he had saved it for her . |
| 4 | He had wanted her almost from the first moment , and he had loved her for nearly as long . |
| 5 | ‘ I have a proposition for you , ’ he said to Burkett and as he said it he weighed up his man as if he had met him for the first time . |
| 6 | Cliff had a magnificent physique , was always commanding in the air and possessed a fearsome shot — and Palace fans knew his quality from previous encounters , when he had opposed us for Watford and Northampton . |
| 7 | He had asked me for a photograph of myself when I was young and I had told him to go around and get it from Mandy . |
| 8 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 9 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 10 | He had treated her for several months using her husband as an interpreter — as though her husband were an objective witness to her depression . |
| 11 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 12 | Trying to pretend he had mistaken her for someone else was obviously not going to work . |
| 13 | He was obviously Garry 's brother-in-law and he had mistaken her for Dana . |
| 14 | She would tell him he had mistaken her for Dana and then he would leave . |
| 15 | He had mistaken it for an ashtray and I watched from the back seat as he painstakingly flicked his ash on to the small pile of dead matches and cigarette ends that he 'd accumulated in the bowl of the vent . |
| 16 | Wordsworth had some idea of what was going on , as he had prepared himself for this second visit by reading pamphlets , and probably had a letter of introduction to Brissot ; but at first he was only sentimentally affected by the ideals of the Revolution . |
| 17 | He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before . |
| 18 | Whistling ‘ I 'm in the Mood for Love ’ , and rejecting the buzz of his telephone , he had prepared himself for the chase . |
| 19 | In those early months he had wanted her to know the magnitude of what he had done and that he had done it for her . |
| 20 | Not for the first time she wondered how on earth her father had persuaded the children to call him ‘ Gamps ’ and decided that he had done it for the sole purpose of driving her mad . |
| 21 | You could not call what Lugh had done gossip , because he had done it for their own good . |
| 22 | Maurin interjected that he had done it for the best , that he suspected she would spread silly gossip and it was sensible to keep her away from the English journalist . |
| 23 | Of course it was not certain either that Zoser had done it or that , if he had done it , he had done it for sectarian reasons . |
| 24 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 25 | But it was as if he had done it for the thrill of it . ’ |
| 26 | Letterman implies that he had to divorce her for her own good ; he could not bear to see so much life force confined in marriage . |
| 27 | He had taken me for some kind of refugee from the Napoleonic Wars ! |
| 28 | To make his point , he had taken her for a burger , nothing more , and defied her to come on too strong about it . |
| 29 | He had taken it for granted that his verbose and glib explanation of the facts would convince the jury of his innocence . |
| 30 | All his life , he had taken it for granted that they loved each other to the exclusion of anyone else . |