Example sentences of "he had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Hodkinson admitted last night : ‘ When Colin lost his title to Palecio , I thought a fight against him had gone for good . |
| 2 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 3 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 4 | Asshe himself sat in the midst , the long grey beard he had grown for Lear spreading out abundantly , his white hair wild as though on the blasted heath . |
| 5 | Her letters , like his own comment in 1913 on his letters to her , suggest that at eighteen he had begun for her eyes alone the long process of self-discovery with assured confidence of her support . |
| 6 | Volume I covers the period of 1916 to 1930 and concludes with Magritte 's return to Brussels from Paris where he had stayed for nearly three years . |
| 7 | As the constitutional deadline for the government 's term in office approached , Labour MPs increasingly sought to avert electoral disaster by calling on Palmer to step down in favour of Moore , whom he had defeated for the leadership in August 1989 . |
| 8 | Graham brought proceedings to a standstill , arguing that he was within his rights to declare even though the rules stated he had to bat for the full 10 overs . |
| 9 | He said it was a preparation he had to take for diabetes . |
| 10 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 11 | He had apologised for his wife 's absence . |
| 12 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 13 | A 100-YEAR-OLD man was assaulted and robbed yesterday as he walked to the bank to deposit £1,450 he had saved for his funeral . |
| 14 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 15 | On one occasion , for example , Charles flew down to Broadlands to consult Mountbatten about a speech he had written for the Gandhi centenary tribute . |
| 16 | The men from Big Blue originally came to Microsoft 's founder , Bill Gates , to license the programming languages that he had written for the early personal-computer enthusiasts , most of whom had built their own machines . |
| 17 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 18 | Some days later we received from Paul Ingouf copies of the article about our visit which he had written for the Cherbourg newspaper , together with further photographs and documents . |
| 19 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 20 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |
| 21 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 22 | In this case , a computer programmer developed a computer program which was similar to one he had written for his previous employer . |
| 23 | Cross-examined by Donald Macfadyen , QC , for the defence , Mr Malcolm read from a note he had written for the firm 's compliance director which said Mackie had asserted he had made no mention of an impending profits warning . |
| 24 | He had suspected for a while that Nancy had become tired of Bill Sikes ' brutality and violence , and that she had found a new friend to take his place . |
| 25 | A little later from his bedroom , where he had retired for a rest , he watched through his daughters ' brass telescope as the grey shadow of what had once been the sleek and lively Hari moved slowly over to the sepoy lines with , as usual , the Prime Minister dodging along behind am . |
| 26 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 27 | He had hoped for some more kumquats , the man in the bed next to him having peeled them all . |
| 28 | It had been Dalrymple 's idea to require the clan chiefs to take the oath of allegiance and it became obvious that he had hoped for an opportunity to punish one clan as an example to the others . |
| 29 | He looked old and forlorn , in spite of the ferocious beard , as if he had hoped for something and been disappointed . |
| 30 | Tajan predicted in November that Ader Tajan would make a total of FFr310–330 million in 1992 , less than the FFr350 million he had hoped for but enough to cover annual wage costs of FFr13 million . |