Example sentences of "had [verb] for this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In God 's purposes Jesus had already gone to the cross , he was alre , hi his , his natural fate if you like , was already sealed , he had come for this purpose , he had come to die . |
| 2 | I had picked for this exercise a place that I had visited many years before. , but to which I had never returned . |
| 3 | He had searched for this assassin by silent threat and bribery but so far had discovered nothing . |
| 4 | She had been offered a job called ‘ copy chief at one of the agency 's clients on the strength of the work she had done for this client at the agency . |
| 5 | What he had to announce for this year was , particularly in its revenue-raising aspects , decidedly thin , indeed fiscally neutral . |
| 6 | His father had provided for this title to pass to Charles if his brother inherited the earldom of Arundel ; but when this occurred in 1677 Henry refused to give up the title , and Charles took the case to Chancery , in 1682 obtaining a celebrated decision in his favour by Heneage Finch , first Earl of Nottingham [ q.v . ] . |
| 7 | In learning to account for its difference from non-Europe , it also had to account for this supremacy , for the unquestionable success it had had in imposing its hegemony on ‘ inferior ’ cultures . |
| 8 | In the course of time the Mercian kingdom also came to embrace much of the territory , for example , of the Wocensaete or Wreocensaete , who took their name from the Wrekin and dominated the north Shropshire plain , and it would probably be the case , if charter-material had survived for this area of north-west Mercia analogous to that which has survived for the Hwicce , that kings of the Wreocensaete emerged in varying degrees of dependence on or subjection to the Mercian ruler . |
| 9 | The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time . |