Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] i have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | the times I 've tried for up to five minutes waiting for switchboard to answer |
| 2 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 3 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 4 | You could no longer do the things I 'd taken for granted , like making a cup of tea and sitting down for a gossip when I came in from college . |
| 5 | We all sat fairly comfortably and ate the things I 'd bought for the occasion . |
| 6 | Then I thought of all the trees I had taken for granted in the past — beside the Cherwell at Oxford or on the pavements of a Surrey suburb . |
| 7 | In spite of the occupations I have followed for the last thirty years , shreds of science remain . |
| 8 | If I analyse the bosses I 've worked for , the ones who irritated me the most were the ones who were indecisive and who constantly asked for more information just to delay making a decision . |