Example sentences of "she had for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said . |
| 2 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 3 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 4 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 5 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 6 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 7 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 8 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 9 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 10 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 11 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 12 | And Ben was all she had for companionship ; those who would have been her so-called friends she would n't let over her step , and those she would have liked to call friends would n't come near her step . |
| 13 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |