Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst thing was my Bible and books I had for Pat McDonald were gone too . |
| 2 | It was one of the great post-war institutions whose central purpose was political — to put an end to the frightful nationalistic quarrels which had for decades , indeed centuries , seen the people of Europe tearing each other to pieces and spreading havoc far and wide . |
| 3 | But in the end he was toppled by these very same foreigners who had for so long manipulate Iranian life . |
| 4 | His father had been killed in the Rostock riots of 1931 , and it seems that Gustav himself had for certain been a Worker Youth . ’ |
| 5 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 6 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 7 | An attitude which had for generations seemed common-sense now appeared archaic , part of a vanishing world . |
| 8 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 9 | ‘ Poor thing , ’ she might have said another time , but now any sympathy she had for the machine was swamped by her fears for her children . |
| 10 | Robert said , ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've made you change any plans you had for today . ’ |
| 11 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 12 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 13 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 14 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 15 | One of the magnets in the Fishpen we had for review was already broken presumably in the post . |
| 16 | The brave heresies which were uttered then , the great plans we had for Britain , our determination to allow people to keep a fair proportion of what they have worked for and won : must these noble hopes perish so soon ? |
| 17 | There were also a number of questions I had for them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's the name I had for you when you were a baby . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 22 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 23 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 24 | But it was there when my heart softened on witnessing the courtesy you showed my housekeeper , the smile you had for her ; there when I asked you to dinner with no certainty why I 'd done so , other than that it most assuredly was n't on account of any interview . |
| 25 | I did ask Mme Guérigny what evidence she had for these sacrificial murders . |
| 26 | Beyond that , the White Paper Better Services for the Mentally III ( 1975 ) also set out rates of provision which health and local authorities ought to be aiming to achieve For ‘ oughtness ’ could be read council discretion about what priorities they had for the distribution of ‘ new moneys ’ . |
| 27 | Albé was the nickname they had for Byron . |
| 28 | It was no boyish fancy , the feelings he had for her ; they seemed to have been born in him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |