Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [conj] [pron] have for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 2 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 5 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 6 | I was wondering how on earth I should endure these hunting days , especially when they all came back and crowed over me about the jolly time they 'd had , and then I thought , by jove , there 's Alexandra Abbott and she does n't hunt and she made me laugh more than anyone has for years . |
| 7 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |
| 8 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 11 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |