Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 2 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 3 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
| 4 | The ideas of Russian Formalism survived , however , in the work of the Prague Linguistic Circle , one of whose founders , Roman Jakobson , had left Moscow for Czechoslovakia in 1920 . |
| 5 | 7/JG 26 had left Sicily for Taranto during this period , operating over southern Yugoslavia on 6th. , the day of the invasion of that country . |
| 6 | Hobbes had left England for Paris in 1640 , believing that his political views made this prudent and , as mathematics tutor to the future Charles II , he was associated there with the exiled English court . |
| 7 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 8 | She hardly knew them , had met them only once , Jacob had reminded her , at her grandmother 's funeral in Portugal , before they had left Europe for America . |
| 9 | He had left India for Egypt because he wanted to get out , not up . |
| 10 | By December , 245,000 had fled from the West Bank and Gaza Strip across the Jordan , 116,000 had fled from the Golan further into Syria , and 11,000 had left Gaza for Egypt . |
| 11 | For Henry Thomas had left Tredegar for railway employment in Swindon and one of his sons , the Uncle Harry who features in the Swindon holidays described so lovingly in The Childhood of Edward Thomas , was a fitter at the Swindon GWR works until he set sail for South Africa in 1891 . |
| 12 | Quite apart from this impulsive folly , there was another reason for Leopold to be anxious : Wolfgang had written that on being turfed out of the archbishop 's lodgings he had taken refuge with his friends the Webers , who had left Munich for Vienna in 1779 when Aloysia was taken on at the German opera . |
| 13 | By June 15 UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) officials in Nairobi numbered at 400,000 the refugees who had left Ethiopia for Sudan following the overthrow in May of the Mengistu regime . |
| 14 | Absent also was Leofwine , who had taken Thorfinn for King as Cormac had , or so it seemed , on the glorious journey to and from Rome , and who had stood trembling as Cormac had on the steps of St Peter 's , one of a brotherhood that had seemed to promise a future none of them had so far dreamed of . |
| 15 | This community of some 25,000 Albanian Moslems had fled Greece for Albania in October 1944 . |
| 16 | Many thousands more , including the Republican government and most of the leading political figures , had fled Spain for exile in Europe , the Americas and the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | As with the Fairbanks-Pickford-Chaplin-Griffith studio , the dream would turn sour , and the participants would all too soon realise they had mistaken Hollywood for Cloud-Cuckoo Land . |