Example sentences of "[pron] have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd hoped for a little money , at the very most , a thousand . |
| 2 | I 'd gone for a walk . |
| 3 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 4 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 5 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 6 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 7 | I lost a sodden pair of boots and socks , and William 's day bag , which I 'd borrowed for a rucksack . |
| 8 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 9 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 10 | I cried to come down more insistently than I had pleaded for a ride . |
| 11 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 12 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 13 | The water was deep in the middle , so I had to swim for a few metres . |
| 14 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 15 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 16 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 17 | I had hoped for a conference with the Turkish and Greek Governments and representatives of the two communities . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd schooled very well and although I had hoped for a lead for a bit longer , we had to go on where we did . |
| 19 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 20 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 21 | Unkindly , I laughed and told him that that sounded just about the worst idea I had heard for a very long time . |
| 22 | The immense build-up made it impossible to find a decent anchor and , having stamped out a rather unstable stance , I had to settle for a couple of drive-ins in a clod of frozen turf . |
| 23 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 24 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 25 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 27 | I had to go for a piss . |
| 28 | I had to go for a piss , so I did n't watch him for very long . |
| 29 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 30 | Paul and I had gone for a walk along the sand , northwards on a calm , bright autumn day after a ferocious storm the night before that had ripped slates off the roof of the house , torn up one of the trees by the old sheep-pen and even snapped one of the cables on the suspension foot-bridge . |