Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] for the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reasons were all based on his search for Rectitudo in mind and will , as he had sought it for the past thirty years . |
| 2 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 3 | Neither , we are told , had had it for the past 40 years . |
| 4 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 5 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 6 | Guido 's won it for the past two years and he 's absolutely desperate to get a hat trick — though some of his rivals are equally desperate to see that he does n't . ’ |