Example sentences of "had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had to perform for them with the spotlight on her and she knew that no trick would be good enough . |
| 2 | He had trawled for views and ideas , as has become his method . |
| 3 | ‘ You 're too hot , ’ continued Jenny , lifting the coat Billie had placed for extra warmth on her bed . |
| 4 | He found the bag of bread and sultanas that Philip had filled for the pheasants . |
| 5 | In a letter in the Gentleman 's Magazine of 1790 , ‘ Philippos ’ , identified by Pugh as Granville Penn , who was to play a central role in the foundation of the London Veterinary College , wrote that he ‘ had often lamented the failure of the plan which the late ingenious M Bourgelat had formed for establishing a veterinary school in England ’ . |
| 6 | The Shah subsequently told the Israeli foreign minister , Abba Eban , that he had jumped for joy at Nassers gemmulation victory . |
| 7 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 8 | Later my father decided it would be useful and character-forming for me to know all the measurements as well as he did , so I had to sit for hours with the Measurement Book ( a huge loose-leaf thing with all the information on the little stickers carefully recorded according to room and category of object ) , or go round the house with a jotter , making my own notes . |
| 9 | He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life . |
| 10 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 11 | ‘ Two reasons : first , because they moved here , the Sardinians , to find pasture when the land they had grazed for centuries was taken from them for development — the Costa Smeralda , etcetera . |
| 12 | From the outside it looked as if the NAMIBIA players surrounding their coach-cum-manager-cum-union President , Henning Snyman , had gathered for the ritual pre-match huddle . |
| 13 | The golfing correspondents of newspapers and magazines from all over the world had gathered for the finale . |
| 14 | Peter Jones , 19 , was found in a tent where a group of young people had gathered for a party . |
| 15 | I had to mourn for Sesostris so I went back to his house . ’ |
| 16 | She had to mourn for her friends who died in the accident . |
| 17 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 18 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 19 | The beneficiary under a trust had a fair prospect of recovering the object the settlor had intended for him . |
| 20 | Devonport 's plan is to use land Rosyth had intended for a new £267 million Trident refitting facility for the oil tanker work . |
| 21 | He had arranged for him to fly to an Italian song festival which was n't just Italian , it was an international song festival , of the lesser variety , but one which paid money . |
| 22 | The fear of a ‘ few stern five minutes ’ with his father , who wanted him to leave Battersea Grammar School for the neighbouring public school St. Paul 's , and had arranged for him to have special lessons in Latin verse and in Greek , kept him steadily at school work , although he knew he ‘ could do better at lessons if I wished ’ . |
| 23 | I had arranged for her to see a specialist , and he told me the condition was irreversible , that she would never lose her sight completely but that she would be almost totally blind within a year . |
| 24 | For this to work though , it was absolutely essential to get them to their spot a minute or two ahead of her , and to achieve that we had arranged for Mrs Thatcher to pause for a cup of coffee with the VIPs in a small room just outside the terminal door . |
| 25 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 26 | Some girls I knew had arranged for their two penfriends to meet me at the Gare du Nord and , somehow , we recognised one another . |
| 27 | Superintendent Hayes sealed the bedroom , leaving PC May at the house until Norris had arranged for the body to go to the mortuary . |
| 28 | The bank had arranged for a four-wheeler to pick up the messenger , round the back of the building . |
| 29 | The Head Gardener , Andrew King , had arranged for a local woodcarver , Dave Meekes , to be on spot to craft the wood into bowls as the tree was sawn up by a team of tree surgeons . |
| 30 | He had to supervise dances he had arranged for Aida , one of the productions taken by the Covent Garden Opera to the Rhodes centenary celebrations . |