Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 2 | We 've already seen how carefully planned customer flow can encourage the shopper to leave with a loaded basket when she had only popped in for a loaf of bread or a pint of milk . |
| 3 | After all , I had only come back for a day or two to buy some good German clothes . |
| 4 | Recently , we had enough saved up for a nice flat after having lived in one room for a year . |
| 5 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 6 | During this ceaseless pursuit of the right métier for my particular brand of foolishness , I had already pitched up for a Telethon trailer to flamenco dance for the cause . |
| 7 | He kept forgetting they would write it down : he seems to have thought — most of the time — that they had just turned up for a friendly drink . |
| 8 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 9 | The impression of a house where the occupants had just walked out for a stroll in the garden was very strong . |
| 10 | She said she could n't stay , that she had just dropped in for a minute . |
| 11 | After an evening of pleasure and profit with my friends in Bank Street , I had clearly gone out for a drink or two . |
| 12 | He had n't let up for a single moment , questioning , probing , searching for clues in her answers like a scientist searching for new bugs on a microscope slide . |
| 13 | But I had neither stumped up for a bale of fluffy bathroom towels , nor chipped in to the Qantas ticket . |