Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 2 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 3 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 4 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |
| 5 | But it was n't until Ellen came to pick him up that he discovered that she had already bought everything for a picnic lunch . |
| 6 | The mothers used cotton wool for cosmetic purposes because they had already purchased it for child and babycare , and it is to hand . |
| 7 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 8 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 9 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 10 | Blanche had just asked him for permission to approach the secret services formally and inspect their files on Graham Mills . |
| 11 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 12 | The headmistress , who had always ridiculed her for being bad at games , now referred to her as ‘ our best pupil ’ and gave her a set of Shakespeare , duly inscribed . |
| 13 | You see the trouble is with Margaret her husband had always done everything for her , she went out to work and he brought the , he more or less did his work , did overtime , everything and still managed to look after the boys |
| 14 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 15 | The room , the cottage , Ryan , her lack of confidence , all faded ; there was only now , this one moment in time , and nothing in her life had ever prepared her for the feelings she experienced . |
| 16 | It was the first time she had ever begged him for anything , but she knew it was likely he could be persuaded with flattery . |
| 17 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 19 | Rauti replaced the much younger Gianfranco Fini who had narrowly defeated him for the post in December 1987 [ see p. 35989 ] . |
| 20 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 21 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 22 | In December , after Eisenhower had belatedly denounced him for trying to " set himself above the laws of our land " , he was condemned by the Senate . |
| 23 | THERE WERE eight of us who had voluntarily submitted ourselves for treatment at the clinic : two lawyers , two Italian businessmen , two bankers , a fashion designer and me . |
| 24 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 25 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 26 | He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of her husband . |
| 27 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 28 | He had never asked her for her heart . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 30 | Dimas had reportedly clashed with the Prime Minister 's wife , Marika Mitsotakis , who had publicly reprimanded him for his behaviour towards Greek industrialists accompanying the official party . |