Example sentences of "the [noun sg] he had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debts had swallowed up most of the money he had got for Carinish Court . |
| 2 | After she changed the number , Coleman himself began to get similar calls at the apartment he had taken for the family in Palatine , a commuter train ride from the Boy Scouts ' office on Lake Street , Chicago , although these , too , stopped after he took the DIA 's advice and obtained an unlisted number . |
| 3 | He reassured everyone that it would make no difference to the course he had set for himself . |
| 4 | His palms were still red from the belting he had got for talking that afternoon . |
| 5 | Thus , summoning all my courage and self-control ( easier to do on paper ) , I replied wishing him luck , and sent by surface mail the photograph he had asked for . |
| 6 | In due course , Mr Cross took the photograph he had come for and the girl crossed the narrow road and watched the train drop down into the valley . |
| 7 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 8 | He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days . |
| 9 | He referred to the help he had received for his humble efforts during the year of his mayoralty ( 1811 ) . |
| 10 | The wine he had taken for lunch , together with the oppressive afternoon heat , had quite tired him out . |
| 11 | He died later that year having certainly left his mark upon the town he had adopted for his ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 12 | Until yesterday this was the nearest Mike Cratchley thought he was going to get to the chateau he had booked for a group holiday this summer . |
| 13 | The music was his , and emerged as written from the apparatus he had designed for it , but it was changed . |
| 14 | The car was not ready by that date , so the defendant bought another car elsewhere and claimed back the price he had paid for the chassis . |
| 15 | This was the day he had waited for so long — the day of the fair . |
| 16 | The intolerance he had shown for free-traders before 1914 was now turned on rebel Unionists who rocked the coalition boat . |
| 17 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 18 | Peter remembered the motto he had chosen for the Emperor 's Luck Casino in Emor . |
| 19 | Folly clutched the towel closer around her , painfully aware that the bikini he had packed for her was the briefest she owned . |
| 20 | John Coleridge , ‘ an Israelite without guile ’ , had probably died of a massive stroke , and a few days later was buried on the north side of the altar in the church he had served for twenty-one years . |
| 21 | He thought wistfully of the studio he had created for himself so laboriously in The Hague , only to abandon it . |
| 22 | To be branded an unfeeling brute reinforced the image he had made for himself of a man who was dog-rough , ‘ a foul beast ’ , unfit for human company , not to be tolerated in civilised drawing rooms . |
| 23 | The facts made the contempt he had felt for her , six years ago at any rate , even more understandable . |
| 24 | A production environment that sought to minimize expense was not especially stimulating to creativity , and some idea of the cynicism involved is evident from the instruction given to Adrian Brunel by the bosses at MGM that he could n't make any improvements in the film he had made for them lest his cuts shorten the film below the act 's definition of a full-length picture . |
| 25 | Middleton 's body was washed up sometime later on the south coast of England , the country he had fought for so valiantly , and I commend you to read Chaz Bowyer 's citation , which embraces the official citation for Middleton 's VC , in his book The Bomber VCs . |
| 26 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 27 | For example , in a case — Sex slur drove man to lash out at bully who mocked him : Killer stepson 's years of torment — where a bullying stepfather was killed by the stepson he had tormented for years , one of the taunts mentioned was the mocking of his desires to get on at college , calling him a ‘ funny boy ’ . |
| 28 | McCreery gave Keightley the authorization he had asked for , and at 1450 hrs that afternoon he sent a further signal to Gen Clark at 15th Army Group , AC/190 [ KP 102 ] , reporting " Approx 300,000 Germans and 200,000 Croats moving towards area Villach-Klagenfurt . |
| 29 | Chapman had at last got the player he had wanted for so long . |
| 30 | On his way to the office he had asked for a thermos of coffee to be sent to him and two mugs and a bowl of sugar and some milk . |