Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had all come back for lunch but the women had rebelled at going out in the afternoon . |
| 2 | Diana seemed distressed , rushing around in a distracted way — oblivious , it seemed to me , of the work we had all put in for her brother 's wedding . |
| 3 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 4 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 5 | In the second incident , involving the credit card , he had only gone along for the ride , and had not used the card himself , said Mr Harper . |
| 6 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 7 | Daniel had better watch out for him in his rear-view mirror . |
| 8 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 9 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 10 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 11 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 12 | He was lonely and broke and had already barged in for the loan of a cupful of Quaker oats . |
| 13 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |
| 14 | Mr. Maton had worked for many years as a solicitor 's clerk , he had not turned up for work that day , the young man sent to check the reason had found Mr. Maton dead in the kitchen , the small loaf collected on his way home from work the previous evening still in its wrapping on the table . |
| 15 | Emily Lightbody had not turned up for work since the preceding Friday , a rare occurrence in all her thirty years of service . |
| 16 | Mrs Allen 's body was found at her Harberton Park home on Tuesday morning after a senior officer at the Maze informed Banbridge police that she had not turned up for work . |
| 17 | Whatever the occasion , Fagan had not dressed up for it . |
| 18 | The show was over , and Sweetheart had not come back for him . |
| 19 | It felt fragile at first , but it was as if I had finally come up for air after nearly drowning in a pool of lies . |
| 20 | ‘ She 's a tough customer , ’ remarked Melissa when they had finally settled down for the night . |
| 21 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 22 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 23 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 24 | I was unable to pay more than the $100,000 I had just forked out for his British rights , so he sold Leslie Waddington a batch too . |
| 25 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 26 | The theatre of La Scala was completed by 1778 by Giuseppe Piermarini following the decision by City Governor Ferdinand Hapsburg not to rebuild the theatre in the Palazzo Reale which had just burned down for the third time . |
| 27 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 28 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 29 | It was the only thing he had ever stood out for . |
| 30 | Proud and pleased to be playing opposite Frank Donovan who had once stood in for Hayden Coffin . |