Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 5 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 6 | Ven made no move to detain her , not that she had for a second considered that he might . |
| 7 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 8 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 9 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 10 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 11 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 12 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 13 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 14 | you know the other night you were on about the fish that you had for your tea |
| 15 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 16 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 17 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 18 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 19 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 20 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 21 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 22 | For Michael Codron , it marked the start of an outstanding production career — which had seemed to bode so ill for him during the run of The Wit To Woo , a play that had no happier associations for him than it had for Ken . |
| 23 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 24 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 25 | It 's his first pencil-case , that he had for his sixth birthday . |
| 26 | This began with some flattering words about us both , and implied that he had for long been unable to make up his mind about the abdication . |
| 27 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 28 | Tim was quite taken with that big card that he had for his birthday |
| 29 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 30 | He felt better than he had for a while , with hard work aching in his bones and the knowledge that he had decided what he must do at last . |