Example sentences of "he had [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 2 | He had posed for that portrait at the age of twenty-two ; a year later he was in the Crimea . |
| 3 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 4 | ’ And he had stood for several minutes in the passage , paralysed with embarrassment , and shame and chagrin . |
| 5 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |
| 6 | He had become for most a distant , shadowy figure , only seldom to be seen now in newsreels , hardly ever speaking to the nation , and no longer being seen in public . |
| 7 | He had served for many years in India , where he was awarded the VC for action during the Mutiny and eventually ended up as Commander in Chief . |
| 8 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 9 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 10 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 11 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |
| 12 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 13 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 14 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 15 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
| 16 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 17 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |
| 18 | He completed two books of historical essays , The Age of Scandal ( 1950 ) and The Scandal Monger ( 1952 ) , and a translation of a medieval bestiary ( The Book of Beasts , 1954 ) , on which he had laboured for many years . |
| 19 | Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours . |
| 20 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 21 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 22 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 23 | He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . " |
| 24 | On his return , he found that people were curious about why he had opted for such a tough mountain . |
| 25 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 26 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 27 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 29 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |
| 30 | But he had wished for more than that . |