Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She walked up the stone stairs to the sound of the scratchy long-playing record , highlights from Turandot , which she had put on as they had sat down for dinner . |
| 2 | She watched him go , realizing it was weeks since they had sat down for dinner together without an interruption , and over a week since they had made love . |
| 3 | Under the high side there was a grey Buick that I had seen Harvey driving and a long black Lincoln Continental that looked like the President of the United States had come over for pizza and beer . |
| 4 | At 0810 he gathered his staff around him for the daily conference to discuss the day ahead , before taking the morning parade of those attending various courses at the school , to ensure that everyone had turned up for work . |
| 5 | Paula James , Matthew Glyrm 's youthful amanuensis ( after a one-year course in office routines at the technical college ) had turned up for work as usual , unaware of the events which had robbed her of her employer . |
| 6 | There was some muttering among officials after the game that only nine players had turned up for training on Tuesday , but despite the defeat coach Bruce Liddle remained cheerfully optimistic . |
| 7 | Flora had gone straight to bed and though Richard had stayed up for supper , he had been too worn out to eat much . |
| 8 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 9 | When we got there he got a letter to say the owner had fixed up for coal for Poole in Dorset . |
| 10 | Brian Guthrie interviewed Mary , Mavin Shulver ( who had gone along for support ) and some Class members , and the Broadcast went out over the air on the following Saturday . |
| 11 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 12 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 13 | Anyway his uncle had gone off for Christmas with his family , the house was empty . |
| 14 | He had gone out for air while Mary reverted to her servant role , but an impulse had taken him much further than he anticipated and now that he was on the shoreline he knew that he had followed an instinct which was directing him to resolve this business with Mary . |
| 15 | As requested by Mrs Johnson of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , she drove out to the library , with the intention of asking the chief librarian for information about Ben MacLean , but when she arrived he had gone out for morning coffee . |
| 16 | She had worn it twice , once when she had gone out for dinner with her father and Leo and on the night of Sylvie 's return from Italy . |
| 17 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 18 | The tour , unsurprisingly , lost money ; both Oldfield 's own , and some £250,000 which Virgin had put up for tour support . |
| 19 | I paid surreptitious trips to our old homes in Ada Street and West Avenue , where the fences my father had put up for Granny Kirkup before the war — in 1934 , I believe — were still standing round the long garden of ‘ Mundesley ’ , named after my grandmother 's birthplace . |
| 20 | Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection . |