Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had delayed coming for twenty-four hours because she had a hair appointment . |
| 2 | Used my travel alarm for the first time having been appointed ‘ waker up ’ for breakfast — not a success as I had forgotten to resent for French time ( one hour ahead ) — many comments about my parentage . |
| 3 | At the Somme memorial to those with no known grave , his granddaughter wants a posthumous pardon , to finally purge the shame her family had sought to hide for three generations . |
| 4 | Since his shock sacking , Fry had promised to sue for unfair dismissal , and he urged his players to report Flashman to the local police for threats he had made against them . |
| 5 | Adam had often refused to get out , and Gran had had to pay for another ride . |
| 6 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 7 | He was now reviled by the party that he had helped to lead for fifteen years ; in his own word he was " excommunicated " . |
| 8 | A German shipowner had agreed to buy for immediate use a specific ship , the City , which had engines and boilers which were practically new and satisfied German regulations . |
| 9 | The evictions marked the end of the squatters ' movement , which at its most successful had provided housing for some 10,000 people . |
| 10 | Her body had remained hidden for several days . |
| 11 | She had started to look for another job , as it seemed that it would be possible to sell the shop within the next few weeks . |
| 12 | He noticed how bare the room was of the bits and pieces that usually make two lives one life ; but Carla had tried to compensate for that with a beachcomber 's finds : little groups of pebbles and shells on the windowsills , a fan of dried marram in a vase , a gnarled limb of driftwood that she had smoothed and varnished . |
| 13 | But if it had meant working for two months she would have said immediately , as she did now , ‘ I 'll have it . ’ |
| 14 | I was n't doing anything to speed up my role as a would-be doctor , so during my last year at Oxford , where I had planned to stay for three years before going to London for the real hard medical training , I arranged ( again through Dr Allott ) to spend my final long vac helping out as a general dogsbody at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London , where there was a special unit investigating Heine-Medin 's disease , the original name for polio , and — especially in the 1930s — doing research into the spinal aspects . |
| 15 | Mr Fitzpatrick and his son had checked into a hotel and had planned to stay for several days while Liam did some business . |
| 16 | John Romain , Chief Engineer and pilot for ARCO recently experienced his first flight on the aircraft , a flight that he told Lindsey he had waited to accomplish for many years . |
| 17 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |