Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 2 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 3 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 4 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 5 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 6 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 7 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |
| 8 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 9 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |