Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attitude which had for generations seemed common-sense now appeared archaic , part of a vanishing world . |
| 2 | The reverence she had for glamour touched him . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 7 | It 's the name I had for you when you were a baby . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She also turned out to be the last close friend I had for an awfully long time . |
| 10 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 11 | Where 's my drink I had for breakfast ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I did ask Mme Guérigny what evidence she had for these sacrificial murders . |
| 14 | Albé was the nickname they had for Byron . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Fortunately , the answer lay close at hand , in that sense of the redeeming power of personal example which had for so long been part of the mental furniture of the British middle classes . |
| 18 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 19 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 20 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 21 | He wondered how Olga would–take the news he had for her , and decided grimly that she would not like it . |
| 22 | He has memorialised their encounter and its temporary effect upon his deeper self , the depths of feeling he had for her , in his significantly titled poem ‘ Destiny ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 23 | Even his father 's ice-cum-iron exterior had never been able to hide the feeling he had for his wife . |
| 24 | Hoving proved his own worst enemy , and eventually his taste for the tinsel and show of the art world overtook whatever feeling he had for the art itself , and he left the museum after his cherished Arts Communication Center ( to be funded by Walter Annenberg , with Hoving as its head ) , a nebulous film-studio-cum-information centre to be built in gallery space reserved for the European decorative arts department , was dissolved after much local criticism . |
| 25 | I hope that the BBC will make more effort in the future to bring more coverage of major tennis events , for example Grand Slams like the French Open , on the scale of coverage they had for Wimbledon because I am sure that there are many people who are in the same situation as me and would like more tennis on TV . |
| 26 | John did not pray immediately but turned to his wife ; he told her tenderly that their hour of parting had come , the hour they had for so long anticipated . |
| 27 | I could n't believe the space I had for my goal . ’ |
| 28 | So I look up from the jigsaw I had for my birthday . |
| 29 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 30 | At Pyinmana I called on Brayton Case , the gallant Baptist agricultural missionary who had for twenty years organised a training farm . |