Example sentences of "had [verb] with [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was all right for Piers : he had played with her for the hell of it , while making no bones about telling her that she was little more than a convenient body . |
| 2 | She wondered how she could ever have thought that she loved him , and why she had stayed with him for so long after she 'd realised that if she ever had , she did not love him now . |
| 3 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 4 | ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon . |
| 5 | The Gnomes had rolled the designs for the new Crown Jewels into cylinders and packed them carefully into long , hollow tubes , which they had brought with them for the purpose . |
| 6 | Eva already had the uniforms she had brought with her for the youth congress . |
| 7 | I had to live with myself for the rest of my life . |
| 8 | I KNEW of Doctor Ladislav Mareda through British friends who had worked with him for the English-language section of Prague radio until the crushing of the Prague Spring in 1968 . |
| 9 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |