Example sentences of "[that] had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 2 | It took the 45 ton bulldozer just 8 minutes to flatten 4 homes that had stood for 52 years . |
| 3 | The chill that had gone for these brief seconds settled again . |
| 4 | That was welcomed by the organisations that had campaigned for non-payment . |
| 5 | it was agencies like Christian Aid that had lobbied for the inclusion of Development Education in the National Curriculum . |
| 6 | It was then , after a storm that had blown for seven days at speeds exceeding seventy knots , that the Ramapo encountered the biggest wave ever reported by a ship at sea . |
| 7 | A world that had hoped for the old uprightness , not for the collective cowardice of Colonel John Stephenson and his spineless masters on the International Cricket Council . |
| 8 | Denholm was surrounded by an almost palpable aura of aristocratic exhaustion that had disturbed and irritated Talbot in the early stage of their acquaintanceship , a feeling that had lasted for no more than half an hour . |
| 9 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 10 | Sunderland failed badly to reproduce the form that had accounted for the division 's runaway leaders , Ipswich , by a comfortable 3–0 scoreline just 48 hours earlier . |
| 11 | Phyllis enjoyed telling all that had happened for some days . |
| 12 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 13 | A. T. With the strike having taken place , everyone was jockeying , everyone that had sat for Sergeant and passed their exams , the only way they could see to get promotion was to report another man . |
| 14 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 15 | It was fitting , granted pop 's liberation of the private , that the sexuality that had lain for so long as ‘ private ’ under the dominant culture now became public with shocking force : ‘ I noticed that several of the men and women present had weals across their back and buttocks . |