Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have [verb] for the " in BNC.

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1 The location was unusual : the consulting room of a medical specialist where I was to learn the cause of the unacceptably high level of pain from which my sister has suffered for the past five years .
2 Her lawyers had asked for the sentence to be dropped in favour of community service because her health is failing .
3 In 1983 a hairy snail was discovered in the Thames marshes near Kew , where its ancestors had lived for the last 10,000 years .
4 But health officials in the Darlington and the Northallerton health authorities said their budgets had allowed for the pay rises .
5 His mother was bending over the baby in the basketwork cradle his father had made for the first Wooldridge child , and she was mopping the fevered little body with a damp cloth .
6 He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth .
7 Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave .
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