Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the hedge marking the foot of the field I have to look for a minute to find a way through . |
| 2 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 3 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 4 | Gill , 27 , said last night : ‘ Ever since I have been in football I have yearned for a chance to play in Europe . |
| 5 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 6 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 7 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 8 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 9 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 10 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 11 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 12 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |
| 13 | In the spring of 1976 I decided to act on a need I had felt for a very long time . |
| 14 | To prepare this article I had to wait for an event on a day when the visibility was gin-clear to get good photographs from my open cockpit Jodel D9 , using a telephoto lens at various focal lengths to obtain the required framing . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 16 | One contained the proofs of an article she had written for an academic journal ; she scanned the contents of the envelope briefly and pinned it to her noticeboard to be dealt with on her return from Oxford . |
| 17 | The irony is it 's the best team we 've had for a very long time . ’ |
| 18 | But the Premier League clubs did come up with two positive measures in what Parry described as ‘ the most constructive meeting we have had for a long time . ’ |
| 19 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 20 | There was a fat envelope , probably the proofs of an article he had written for an anthropological journal . |
| 21 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 22 | If you do intend to use it , you register the program with the author , and pay whatever fee he has specified for a licence to continue using it . |
| 23 | Until yesterday this was the nearest Mike Cratchley thought he was going to get to the chateau he had booked for a group holiday this summer . |
| 24 | Cagey hobby : Dr Graham Tydeman inside the Silence of the Lambs-style cage he has constructed for an exhibition |
| 25 | So we all got very excited because it was the first money we 'd spent for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ None of the things you have done for a start . ’ |
| 27 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 28 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 29 | One Saturday morning she had waited for an hour and a half outside the dentist 's where he had gone to have a troublesome tooth fixed . |
| 30 | It was a bay horse on its side , and the waving object he had taken for a branch was a leg which in its faint struggles to rise the beast threshed weakly in the air . |