Example sentences of "had for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for company a silver-grey , two-litre Volvo and the Pensées of Blaise Pascal . |
| 2 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 3 | She was wearing the white apron she had for cookery classes at school and was tidying up the house because the doctor was coming . |
| 4 | ‘ George Harrison taught me that — I was at his house , and I noticed that all he had for breakfast was fresh fruit . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe it was somethin' she had for breakfast , ’ Sonny said . |
| 6 | You give me anyone 's phone line and mail for a month and I 'll tell you exactly who he is , how old he is , his likes and dislikes , his character , his worries , what he had for breakfast and supper , what time he wakes up . |
| 7 | They know what he had for breakfast ’ . |
| 8 | It may take anywhere from two to five or six hours , depending on the wood and the wind and what you had for breakfast and things like that . |
| 9 | Do n't just count ; tell them how you got to the studio or what you had for breakfast . |
| 10 | When a sender judges her receiver 's schema to correspond to a significant degree with her own , she need only mention features which are not contained in it ( the time of getting up and what she had for breakfast , for example ) ; other features ( like getting out of bed and getting dressed ) will be assumed to be present by default , unless we are told otherwise . |
| 11 | But about himself he practically told me what he had for breakfast . |
| 12 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 13 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 14 | I often think how she would despise me when I am driven by curiosities to ask the children what they had for lunch when they were invited out . |
| 15 | We knew what they had for lunch . |
| 16 | Evidence , particularly Mr Knapp 's , proved ‘ how deep was the mistrust and suspicion employer had for union and union had for employer ’ . |
| 17 | Gloria came every day , just as she had for Baby . |
| 18 | The first er things we had was arm bands which had , had L D V on , that was the first uni type of anything we had for recognition was them . |
| 19 | He was aware of the strong emotional needs people had for certainty and for a surrogate parental-authority figure , and he was always wary of the tendency among some to turn psychoanalysis into a religious system , and perhaps himself into a sacred authority . |
| 20 | It took time , it took time , it took a period of years till they got it finalized but when we got it finalized , we had for example er welding areas , in which no one was allowed in unless they were a welder you know . |
| 21 | He had for sale ( on commission ) the Nordenfelt and Maxim guns in their various versions , the Holland submarine , a range of the most powerful naval surface ships , the Whitehead torpedo , and , later , a fighter aircraft . |
| 22 | She was all set to paint , but when Vitor slid his hands into his trouser pockets and , with jacket flaring back , strolled across to inspect the items which she had for sale , her gaze compulsively followed him . |
| 23 | So whether you 're tidying away some of those large toys that the kids had for Christmas , and have got fed-up with , storing a few treasures in the loft , using it as a laundry or shopping basket , or even to clear up the garden rubbish , the ‘ Monster ’ will take it . |
| 24 | Wine , grapes , bulls and lots and lots of sun , that 's what I had for Christmas , General . ’ |
| 25 | A padded shirt like Alfred had for Christmas ? |
| 26 | Robert had for Christmas . |
| 27 | I accompanied the asparagus I had for dinner ( over-cooked ) with a couple of glasses of the Sasbacher Scheibenbuck Müller Thurgau ( trocken ) . |
| 28 | Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve . |
| 29 | And basically they ha and the other thing , right , I found out what they had for dinner the other night right ? |
| 30 | In many Third World countries , therefore , comprador is a term of abuse and , as a consequence has lost most of the little value it ever had for analysis . |