Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An air of hesitancy had prevailed for most of the day as the City waited nervously for the Budget . |
| 2 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 3 | Parents had fought for this as a local resource to prevent the need for children to be placed in long-stay placements far from home . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that he had worked for most of the period of his contract in England , lived in England , was paid in English currency and paid National Insurance contributions in the UK , he was at all times liable to be recalled to Dhaka . |
| 5 | Another man , a colleague in the newspaper industry in London , left the office where he had worked for most of his adult life to travel home for the weekend . |
| 6 | Listening to the autumn wind moaning across this corner of the sparse Northumberland coastline a few miles south of Berwick-upon-Tweed , where Nora Simpson had lived for all of her married life , their memories of her were vivid . |
| 7 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 8 | A new entrant , joining in July 1960 , had devilled for all but one of the dozen or so lawyers by Christmas . |
| 9 | A number of personal papers were taken away too , together with a hot water bottle bearing the name Benji , and clothes that Mrs Mackenzie had purchased for some of the children in the family of fifteen . |