Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 2 | You had to go ashore for that . |
| 3 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 4 | Was there ever a time when you had to go in for more drastic measures ? |
| 5 | It was Germany which had pressed hardest for more powers to be granted to the European Parliament at the expense of the national parliaments as the price for monetary union on German terms . |
| 6 | We had pressed hard for these and the Inspector eventually agreed to a series at four different venues . |
| 7 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 8 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 9 | Lincoln , in turn , came across the mystery in de Sede 's book Le Tresor Maudit ( The Cursed Treasure ) , which he had picked up for some light holiday reading . |
| 10 | Claims for damages against British accountancy firms have proliferated since the 1970s , when the aggressively litigious environment that US accountants had operated in for many years spread to the UK . |
| 11 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 12 | She had saved up for such a long time and did n't want to carry a load of coins around . |
| 13 | The first person she had opened up for that morning had been the postman at five past eight . |
| 14 | Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse . |
| 15 | So then I had to put in for another grant because he 'd smashed every damn thing . |
| 16 | We bought some after we had laid out for most of ours |
| 17 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 18 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 19 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 20 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 21 | Things had gone well for both families over the past few seasons and each farm was thriving . |
| 22 | Would n't have minded if the driver had gone in for some stronger magic — the old Christianity did n't seem to be having much effect on his driving . |
| 23 | She agreed , but said that before he began work with Brian Harley — after the Safari circuit but before the European Tour began — he had gone off for several days ’ training . |
| 24 | The lawyer and his clerk had worked together for many years , and knew and understood each other . |
| 25 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 26 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 27 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 28 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 29 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 30 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |