Example sentences of "had [verb] for he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 2 | Halfway down the Haymarket , now quite a distance from Piccadilly Circus , Neil paused , breathless , and afterwards wondered what kind god had arranged for him to be where he was . |
| 3 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 4 | The time had come for him to be totally unselfish and think only of Anna . |
| 5 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 6 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 7 | She followed him with her eyes as he walked with Emmie to the gate , very neat and spruce in the white Terylene shirt and blue shorts she had bought for him at Harrods . |
| 8 | ‘ Why jeopardize what he had going for him by getting greedy ? |
| 9 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 10 | It was not until a few weeks after her father had been installed that Dorothy began to realize the fortitude with which her mother had cared for him over the years . |
| 11 | The Minister of Labour , Ernest Bevin , received a message which he had decoded for him in a Leeds hotel by Albert Heal , a trade union leader who had run a pre-war escape route for German socialists that still had watertight communications . |
| 12 | Old Aaron Kleiber built up a little tailoring business , and for a time Ruth had worked for him as a seamstress , together with Sarah Vogel , another immigrant , and Rosie O'Dell , Connor and Sean 's half-sister . |
| 13 | He was the Principal Scientific Officer Document Examiner , and she had worked for him as a young S.O . |
| 14 | He had liked Susan Moffat who , for two years , had worked for him as his S.O . |
| 15 | Leslie had first to undergo a stiff P.T. course at Hardwick , but he found to his relief that he had not deteriorated from the peak physical condition which , despite those months of idleness , had achieved for him in North Africa his acceptance into the Parachute Regiment . |
| 16 | Cameron was already half an hour later than Alexandra had budgeted for him to be . |
| 17 | Mercer Lorrimore , unattended by the rest of his family , talked pleasantly with his trainer , who had come from Toronto , and shook hands with his jockey , the same one who had ridden for him at Woodbine . |
| 18 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 19 | A kindly uncle with no children of his own had paid for him to be educated , but education only made him discontented with his lot in life . |