Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ostrovsky had left Israel for Canada , his birthplace , in 1986 when he was dismissed from Mossad after working for them for some 17 months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had left India for Egypt because he wanted to get out , not up . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This community of some 25,000 Albanian Moslems had fled Greece for Albania in October 1944 . |
| 10 | 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 . |