Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had arranged March for the wedding . |
| 2 | And while Boro could point to Norman 's two brilliant stops as the reason for coming away empty handed , they had to thank Pears for saving the day in the 71st minute when he saved point-blank from Mohan to prevent an own goal . |
| 3 | ‘ Alex picked up a pair of earrings Monica had given Rachel for her 21st birthday the other day and said : ‘ Will mummy mind if I wear them ? ’ |
| 4 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 5 | Eliot had criticized Wundt for ignoring sexuality 's part in religion . |
| 6 | He had attacked Eliot for worshipping culture , which I considered about as false an imputation as could be imagined . |
| 7 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 8 | The duke 's campaign of the previous season , which had won Berwick for the crown , may have whipped up enthusiasm for future conquests , but it had also been a lesson in the expense and difficulty of winning a small piece of land and the cost of keeping it thereafter . |
| 9 | It was she who had interviewed Meg for the Old Rectory and Meg now found it difficult to connect that confident , tweeded , slightly aggressive woman with the two gentle old people she knew . |
| 10 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 11 | Both McDermott and Border queried the decision with umpire McConnell , and shortly afterwards umpire Darrell Hair , standing in his first Test , had to no-ball Hughes for his second bouncer of an over , again to the adhesive Prabhakar . |
| 12 | A young woman called Simone Thiroux had eyed Modigliani for a long time . |
| 13 | According to the defendants ' version of events , a women had approached Khmara for help , claiming that a man had attacked her ; Khmara and his companions then tried to make a citizen 's arrest on the man , unaware that he was a KGB officer . |
| 14 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 15 | In her heart of hearts she had blamed Paul for his unrelenting pressure , but it was her own weakness , her failure to stand up to him , that was responsible for the situation . |
| 16 | Nothing in her life so far had prepared Laura for the shock she experienced at the sheer animal magnetism projected by the stranger . |
| 17 | Ten years now he had lived in Vienna , fourteen since he had quit Russia for the last time , twenty-two since the day he had realized his boyhood ambition to become an officer in the St. Petersburg Grenadiers . |
| 18 | In the following month the Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister , Kunihiko Saito , had visited Moscow for the first working-level negotiations on the dispute since the termination of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | Later , after she had visited Joy for the last time and he had filled her arms with fruit , as he had on every visit , she made her way to the cemetery . |
| 20 | This was the horse that General Tolonen had bought Han for his seventeenth birthday ; the horse Han Ch'in had ridden daily until his death . |
| 21 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 22 | The University had recognised Kemp for what he was : his promotion was slow ; a full fellowship was withheld ; no family ; a very modest two-bedroomed flat in North Oxford ; and , above all , a great personal tragedy . |
| 23 | When the French discovered this , Felix and his family lost all their lands and money , and had to leave France for ever . |
| 24 | Still , the case was important , because Louis had summoned Eudes for a breach of the peace , in accordance with the Second Lateran Council 's definition . |
| 25 | Watching Peter 's face under the leather helmet , staring at Andrew , he felt Peter had become Jamie for a moment , able to do anything , nothing would stop him . |
| 26 | Alex Trocchi had escaped Glasgow for the city , and release from Calvinism . |
| 27 | On Oct. 17 Havel had praised Vacek for " never having allowed the Army to be misused against the people " , for his loyalty to the new regime , and for having " started the process of fundamental restructuring of the Czechoslovak Army " . |
| 28 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
| 29 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 30 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |