Example sentences of "[pron] had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 2 | The two Bangladeshi boys I had for remedial English all this year . |
| 3 | It 's the name I had for you when you were a baby . ’ |
| 4 | I had for company a silver-grey , two-litre Volvo and the Pensées of Blaise Pascal . |
| 5 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 6 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 7 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 8 | The unit I had for review was the wrist mounted version which had a rubber strap with a built in expander . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 10 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 11 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 12 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 13 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 14 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 15 | The worst thing was my Bible and books I had for Pat McDonald were gone too . |
| 16 | Not so much because of the menace in his voice and manner , but because it caused me to lose what little respect I had for him . |
| 17 | Professor Pearn and I had for the last ten years been interchangeably secretary and editor of the Burma Research Society , and when we discovered that the Society 's bank had been able to get our balance safely into India before the break-up , we conceived the plan of a series of Burma Pamphlets , describing various aspects of the national life . |
| 18 | I could n't believe the space I had for my goal . ’ |
| 19 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 20 | I make a determined effort to rummage around in the jumble of our years together for some of the intensity of feeling I had for her . |
| 21 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 22 | He eased me into a role he had only half-consciously cast me for without my noticing it and , by emphasizing the physical attraction I had for him , he made me feel imperative . |
| 23 | There were also a number of questions I had for them . |
| 24 | If can recall to this day a book I had for review years and years ago in which the hero swaggered into a smart London nightclub , ordered a magnum of champagne and drank it down . |
| 25 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 26 | But I did it through the love , fo , that I had for the couple , and that because they had waited sixteen year before they eventually found out they could n't have children ! |
| 27 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 28 | It was such a shame that he felt like that and could n't recognize the true and deep affection that Terry , Brian and I had for him . |
| 29 | I had for winning a free place at ten , |
| 30 | So I look up from the jigsaw I had for my birthday . |