Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] had [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years .
2 Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted .
3 Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years .
4 The tearing pain returned and the doctor prescribed large doses of morphia which he had kept for this time .
5 Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements .
6 He completed two books of historical essays , The Age of Scandal ( 1950 ) and The Scandal Monger ( 1952 ) , and a translation of a medieval bestiary ( The Book of Beasts , 1954 ) , on which he had laboured for many years .
7 Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours .
8 Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years .
9 When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less .
10 What he had to announce for this year was , particularly in its revenue-raising aspects , decidedly thin , indeed fiscally neutral .
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