Example sentences of "[verb] [that] he had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might as well have descended on the Palace , announcing that he had come for a stay . |
| 2 | Some papers later reported that he had stopped for tea at the Ritz but this unlikely frivolity was angrily and officially denied . |
| 3 | The figure called himself the devil and declared that he had come for Gary 's life . |
| 4 | Still half dazed by shock , lashed by rage and a deeper pain she told herself was grief for Edmund , Isabel forgot the fleeting moments when fitzAlan had shown her tenderness despite his suspicions , forgot that he had asked for the truth . |
| 5 | As he had passed her in the little hall this morning a tendril of her silky black hair had brushed his ruined cheek , and the smell of it had been so distracting that he had feared for his composure . |
| 6 | The issue had already had a major impact during the election campaign , when Wolfgang Schnur , a human rights lawyer in Rostock and the leader of Democratic Awakening , resigned his post on March 14 after admitting that he had worked for the Stasi . |
| 7 | And at Old Trafford yesterday , Cantona denied that he had asked for a transfer or that his working relationship with Wilkinson had suffered any breakdown . |
| 8 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 9 | An indemnity committee considered that he had spied for political reasons and was thus eligible for release under the government 's indemnity programme . |