Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Samuel Pipkin tried to keep excitement from his voice ; in truth he was as shocked as any of them at the reality of what in his mind he had longed for . |
| 5 | His palms were still red from the belting he had got for talking that afternoon . |
| 6 | The evening terminated with the members singing ‘ For he 's a jolly good fellow ’ to Micky Watson in appreciation of the considerable work he had done for the Club . |
| 7 | He referred to the help he had received for his humble efforts during the year of his mayoralty ( 1811 ) . |
| 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 | Apparently he had mistaken the small man in jeans for the window cleaner he had sent for . |
| 10 | His letters to Helen , in particular , uncover the head for business , the punctilious sense of irritable rightness , and the concomitant sudden bouts of self-distrust that marched alongside his desire for an extended life of idealized perfection , similar to the intense moments of joyful peace he had discovered for himself during walks . |
| 11 | In his latter years he created an elaborate water garden at the cottage ornée he had built for himself on the outskirts of Plymouth , and was wont to drive round the streets of the town in a gig disguised as a Roman war chariot , looking , in Wightwick 's words ‘ ( as far as his true English face and costume allowed ) like Ictinus of the Parthenon , ‘ out for a lark ’ . ’ |
| 12 | He died later that year having certainly left his mark upon the town he had adopted for his ‘ retirement ’ . |
| 13 | The music was his , and emerged as written from the apparatus he had designed for it , but it was changed . |
| 14 | This was precisely the way in which Inspector Porfiry in Dostoevsky 's Crime and Punishment homed in on the culprit Raskolnikov , a man who was also damned by a paper : an article he had written for the Periodical Magazine , months before , offering justifications for certain sorts of crimes . |
| 15 | In March 1985 , he came into conflict with the Lord Chancellor over an article he had written for the Daily Telegraph on Government pressure on the judiciary to shorten sentences and on the inadequacies of the prison system . |
| 16 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 17 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The wine he had taken for lunch , together with the oppressive afternoon heat , had quite tired him out . |
| 20 | This was the day he had waited for so long — the day of the fair . |
| 21 | It was a resolve he had fulfilled for as long as he could , relishing settling his mind on sacred thoughts and holy themes in an effort to make himself spiritually equal to the demands of his calling . |
| 22 | A deeper allegiance than his love for the children of the Anglo-Irish landlord he had worked for since he was a homeless lad knocking at the kitchen door to ask for a cup of tea and an odd job . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |
| 25 | Cellulose flake manager was 46 when he obtained his NEBOSH qualification — the first exam he had sat for 26 years . |
| 26 | The intolerance he had shown for free-traders before 1914 was now turned on rebel Unionists who rocked the coalition boat . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Further , on appointment he had realised for the first time that the eastern parts of the District remained largely undeveloped by the WEA . |
| 29 | Oh , was not this delightful , to hurt again the girl who had rejected him , the girl who when all was said and done would have been a greater prize than the vulgar woman he had married for her money ? |
| 30 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |