Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] for century " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , that I may be privileged to tread upon flagstones that worshippers have trod for centuries is a joy . |
| 2 | It had started as an evening of fun , said Harper 's defence team , 5 young people doing what young people have done for centuries . |
| 3 | As people have mathematicians have done for centuries . |
| 4 | I could make a playpen for him and buy him one of those big wooden Arks with all the animals in and I could get one of those bags you carry babies around in like the Indians have had for centuries . |
| 5 | The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force . |
| 6 | The pits where the birds have buried their eggs are quite easy to spot — as human predators have known for centuries — by the slight mounds left by the birds at the surface . |
| 7 | Some rumours , he says , have survived for centuries , merely by mutating and reappearing in a different guise . |
| 8 | Only , therefore , when the public come to terms with the nature of mental handicap and break down the barriers of misunderstanding which have existed for centuries , will a real sense of understanding permeate our society . |
| 9 | They have existed for centuries , serving as shops , offices , workshops and homes in this bustling corner of the city . |
| 10 | One major reason for this is an unfractured insistence on known traditions that have existed for centuries ; the absence of revolutions and occupying armies in Britain and therefore the lack of radical new beginnings as in Germany and Central Europe after World War I has had this effect . |
| 11 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |