Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 2 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 3 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 4 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 5 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 6 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 7 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 8 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 9 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |
| 10 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 11 | James chatting with the Earl of Farrow outside Farrow Hall , which had been used for many of the exterior shots in Pemberley . |
| 12 | The experience curve itself was developed from the concept of the learning curve , which had been used for many years in industries where it was observed that labour time fell as the workforce accumulated experience in producing more of a particular type of unit . |
| 13 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 14 | Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time . |
| 15 | Even the shirts which had been left for many weeks in my laundry out-tray responded to the punishment it dished out . |
| 16 | The situation rapidly became chaotic , and a 250-bedded hospital , which had been allotted for these cases , contained some 1000 patients , when in 1915 Harrison was urgently called upon to sort things out . |
| 17 | The king provoked hostility by seeking to use his prerogative rights to raise money , and by requiring the payment of debts , many of which had been respited for many years . |
| 18 | Several aspects of the reshuffle , which had been expected for several weeks , were attacked by opposition groups who demanded greater reductions . |
| 19 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 20 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 21 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 22 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 23 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 24 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 25 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 26 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 27 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 28 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 29 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 30 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |