Example sentences of "had [verb] for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | These were the words she had longed to hear , the ones she had wished for that day at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 2 | One single man lived in lodgings and his landlady was in the habit of putting in a pudding basin the lunch she had prepared for that day , for him to have warmed up on the morrow . |
| 3 | Elisha was the man that God had equipped for that time in history , in that land , and for the specific needs of individual people around him . |
| 4 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 5 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 6 | He had posed for that portrait at the age of twenty-two ; a year later he was in the Crimea . |
| 7 | I had gone for that X-ray in a state of anxious calm . |
| 8 | It had worked for that other Sabine , she thought . |
| 9 | Well I thought you had to pay for that Ken ? |
| 10 | Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing . |
| 11 | She had forgotten the dreadful price her own sisters had paid for that male greed and self-interest . |