Example sentences of "for what [pron] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 2 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 3 | Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse . |
| 4 | ‘ Doreen Banks may have been murdered for what she had recorded on this , ’ he began . |
| 5 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 6 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 7 | In each lull between contractions memories of James tormented her , and with each new onslaught of pain she mentally tried to inflict the agony on him , cursing him for what he had done to her . |
| 8 | Halfway through the journal he had jumped to his feet — he was ready to rush out of the room , to find Havvie Blaine , to kill him for what he had done to her , and for lying about it afterwards . |
| 9 | The family said they would never forgive Downey for what he had done to Suzannah . |
| 10 | Suzannah 's mother Cassie said she wanted to shoot Downey for what he had done to her eldest daughter . |
| 11 | By giving me a little he was showing both concern for me and his determination that I should pay materially for what I had done to him . |
| 12 | Even after the Independent 's uncritical puff for what it had learned from ‘ high-level sources ’ , America 's trial balloon was slow to take off . |