Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [pron] [pers pn] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day I came up here , there were no workmen and the deserted new village was occupied only by horses , wandering at liberty between the half-finished buildings , the machinery and the piles of materials — hardly the setting for which they had been intended when set loose for the summer to forage for themselves . |
| 2 | Dr Kemp himself ! — the man who had one day been deprived of a jewel which he himself had traced to an American collector , a jewel for which he had been negotiating , a jewel that had been found in the waters below the bridge at Wolvercote in 1873 , a jewel which once united with its mate would doubtless be the subject of some considerable historical interest , and bring some short-term celebrity , possibly some long-term preferment , to himself — to Kemp . |
| 3 | The National Front , also , has failed to make the breakthrough for which it had been hoping . |
| 4 | Ms Wilikins did not look too happy with the question for which she had been given no prior notice . |
| 5 | The Doria , their own ship , brought by the Venetians and Zacco from the Abruzzi , and a veteran now of the war for which she had been chartered . |
| 6 | Inevitably , government help undermined the bank 's ability to do the job for which it had been established , and in 1897 the Poles opened the new Land Purchase Bank . |
| 7 | She also knew that it was probably quite beyond Mrs Bennett to appreciate that a trained nanny , even as young and nice a one as Karen , would not take kindly to being asked to do anything other than the job for which she had been engaged . |
| 8 | The immediate catalyst for his removal was an inept press conference on Dec. 5 in which he declared the recession to be abating , only hours before the publication of official figures which showed that GDP had declined 0.3 per cent in the three months to September , the sixth successive quarter for which it had been either static or negative . |
| 9 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 10 | By the next dawn Isambard had the news for which he had been waiting ; and the following night he put two parties across the Severn , one upstream from them and one down , and converged upon their hiding-place from either end of the ridge . |
| 11 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 12 | In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) . |
| 13 | A mission for which he had been chosen personally by Sabbah . |
| 14 | In Henry , Arnulf finally found the potential monarch for whom he had been searching . |
| 15 | Ten minutes later he was joined by the couple for whom he had been waiting . |
| 16 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 17 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 18 | It turned out that she was a freelance editor for OUP , with a daughter in her early teens and a seven-year-old son for whom she had been caring single-handedly since her husband 's untimely death . |