Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 2 | But no child , So I got up and changed into my khaki drill and was just about to throw the water off the groundsheet that by this time had collected in the hole that I had prepared for my sleeping , to find that there was a black scorpion wallowing in the slight indentation I had made in the sand . |
| 3 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 4 | Nobody knew how to run the longer events , the advice we were given being the same as that I had pontificated for 80 metres back at the White City : start slowly and build up ! |
| 5 | Something inside that empty bottle that I had ignored for so long was hitting back . |
| 6 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |
| 7 | My main aim was for some relief to the back pain that I had had for many years but , having tried many other so-called ‘ back pain relief techniques ’ , without much success ( some worked for a short while , others not at all or even made the pain worse ) , I was not too optimistic . |
| 8 | I almost wish now that I had settled for chronic asthma with which to punish Miller , dispensing with the limp and the sausage fingers altogether . |
| 9 | To her great relief , however , Fabia subsequently discovered that she had asked for a quite delicious meal of venison with bacon , mushrooms and tomatoes . |
| 10 | It turned out that she had gone for a hill walk on her own with an agreed pick up point by him in the car . |
| 11 | It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school . |
| 12 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |
| 13 | It seemed to Tallis that she had smouldered for a long time before finally the fire had taken hold . |
| 14 | Clelia 's visit , however , was all that she had hoped for . |
| 15 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 16 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 17 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 18 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 19 | The pint of milk and newspapers that she had ordered for her arrival were correctly outside the front door . |
| 20 | Other speakers followed , but it soon became clear that she had spoken for ail present . |
| 21 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 22 | She was able to conceal her restlessness , the pacing about , her dream of a different beginning to a new life , her impatience with the old shapes that she had used for too long ; she was not young and was old enough to foresee failure . |
| 23 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 24 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 25 | It was this moment that she had come for . |
| 26 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 27 | Looking back , she could see that she had married for all the wrong reasons . |
| 28 | It was so hot outside that she had settled for an orange cheesecloth caftan , which she 'd jacked in with a belt of linked gold hippos . |
| 29 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 30 | He said that was fine and that he knew that the sails would be as good as the last suit that we had made for him . |