Example sentences of "for what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 2 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 3 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |
| 4 | This made her hate herself for what she had done . |
| 5 | ‘ No , ’ said Mrs Darrell violently to McAllister , who was dipping a curtsy , and beginning a stammering apology , but only because Dr Neil had asked her , not because she was sorry for what she had done . |
| 6 | Always before , after similar wickednesses , she had felt almost gleeful triumph , but this time , although she was not truly sorry for what she had done to Mrs Darrell , she felt something like remorse . |
| 7 | Worse , Dr Neil was being so kind , when reason told her that no one would blame him if he turned her away for what she had done . |
| 8 | It was nothing , this reunion , for what she had imagined . |
| 9 | Not that she was sorry , even now , for what she had said . |
| 10 | Deep down she knew that she should apologise for what she had said , but she 'd had enough today to last her a lifetime ! |
| 11 | Mr MacDuff agreed that the jury should award fair damages to compensate her for what she had gone through . |
| 12 | But as for what she had exchanged it for — that still seemed more like fantasy than waking reality . |
| 13 | ‘ Doreen Banks may have been murdered for what she had recorded on this , ’ he began . |
| 14 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 15 | Not anger for what he had suffered , but a deep and terrible rage for what had been inflicted upon others . |
| 16 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 17 | In Cranleigh Precision Engineering Ltd v Bryant Roskill J held that the defendant who had , whilst a director of the plaintiff company , been made aware of a patent held by a third party which affected the plaintiff 's products , could not justify his failure to disclose the existence of the patent to the plaintiffs and his subsequent acquisition of the patent for himself on the ground that it was public knowledge , for what he had misused was his confidential knowledge of the relationship of the information in the patent to the plaintiff 's products . |
| 18 | Now that he had told her everything , he expected her to condemn him for what he had done , but she said nothing . |
| 19 | ‘ The poor man , ’ a contemporary recorded , ‘ had little to say but that he was sorry for what he had done , and wept like a child . ’ |
| 20 | In each lull between contractions memories of James tormented her , and with each new onslaught of pain she mentally tried to inflict the agony on him , cursing him for what he had done to her . |
| 21 | He was magnificent again at Anfield and I personally thanked him after the game for what he had done . ’ |
| 22 | Then the king 's son was so sorry for what he had done that he would willingly have died too , if it would have brought her back to life . |
| 23 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 24 | Erm , and so Freud at the beginning says that he er , he , he had a personal dislike of er Wilson , and resented him for what he had done and held him responsible for the subsequent disasters . |
| 25 | Halfway through the journal he had jumped to his feet — he was ready to rush out of the room , to find Havvie Blaine , to kill him for what he had done to her , and for lying about it afterwards . |
| 26 | She believed he was ’ sorry for what he had done . |
| 27 | Lee Don Lau called his parents in Singapore to say he was sorry for what he had done . |
| 28 | The family said they would never forgive Downey for what he had done to Suzannah . |
| 29 | Suzannah 's mother Cassie said she wanted to shoot Downey for what he had done to her eldest daughter . |
| 30 | Laurence Hazell , defending , said Sigsworth was remorseful for what he had done . |