Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [pron] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if fate had just punished her for picking wild flowers . |
| 2 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |
| 3 | Because she had been fond of Simon in a sisterly way — as a much older sister — she had always taken it for granted that the affection he had shown her in return had been brotherly , with maybe a spot of heroine worship thrown in . |
| 4 | While Mrs Drubb , with no more explanation than that she was a woman now and had better keep well away from men , had then scolded her for upsetting her mother . |
| 5 | In December , after Eisenhower had belatedly denounced him for trying to " set himself above the laws of our land " , he was condemned by the Senate . |
| 6 | He had never forgiven her for reporting his indiscretion in front of her husband . |
| 7 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |