Example sentences of "have live [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 2 | It was a remarkable education for all of us , including me , who has lived there for many years . |
| 3 | In Idaho , for example , the couple must have lived apart for 180 days . |
| 4 | Elizabeth Beesley had lived here for 37 years before Robert Maxwell made her an offer she could n't refuse . |
| 5 | I stopped to take a photograph of one estancia that I knew belonged to a Scottish family who had lived there for five generations : even from two miles away I could hear the rhythmic clattering of the tin roof as it was lifted and dropped by the gales . |
| 6 | In Kufra one policeman ( the senior customs officer ) was a stranger , though he had lived there for some decades ; in Tazarbu nearly all policemen were from one lineage ( Bilal ) , or had married into it ; the senior officer 's son was also in the force , a trainee under his father 's authority . |
| 7 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 8 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 9 | In any case , Charles Henstock cared little for creature comforts , and had lived there for several years , alone , in appalling conditions of cold and discomfort , until his marriage to Dimity Dean , a few years before , had brought companionship and a slight mitigation of the hardship of his surroundings . |
| 10 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 11 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 12 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 13 | Charles Chaplin left for London , to present his film Limelight , and chose exile when he was told he would be examined on his fitness to re-enter the country he had lived in for forty years . |
| 14 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 15 | We 've lived together for eight years and have two children ? |
| 16 | In your case you may be able to say that your spouse has committed adultery and you find it intolerable to live with her ; or that you have lived apart for two years and you consent to the divorce . |
| 17 | Hodges have lived here for eight generations but Rachel Hodge is relaxed about most things her guests do — even the Czechoslovakian guests who played tennis on her court in brown walking shoes and underwear ! |
| 18 | I have lived here for twenty years . |
| 19 | I have lived here for 40 years and no one ever bothered anyone . |
| 20 | I have lived there for fifteen years , but the moment I leave I feel it closing the doors on me with indifference . |
| 21 | David and Rachel Lloyd have lived there for fifteen years . |
| 22 | Most of the families in Rimswell , especially those concerned in agriculture , have lived there for some generations . |
| 23 | We have lived together for 11 years now and she washes bottles in the store where I sell mine . |
| 24 | When two humans have lived together for many years it usually happens that each has tones of voice and expressions of face which are almost unendurably irritating to the other . |