Example sentences of "[noun] had [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 2 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 3 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 4 | The idea seemed to fit Lucy 's current expression , as though all hands had already gone down for the third time . |
| 5 | Thereafter the accelerating rate of population growth coincided with the ending of the bounty of generally good harvests to turn the trend in the cost of living sharply upwards , while in most regions the increase in the labour force changed a labour market in which wages had generally held up for more than half a century . |
| 6 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |