Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] have [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 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 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 4 | There had been a bitter dispute in the college ever since a group of young fellows returning after the war had voted many of the old fellows out of the college offices they had held for a long time . |
| 5 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 6 | This is a pity because his book was one of the most interesting textbooks I have read for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 8 | A distinctly mature audience had come to hear a band whose fortunes they 've followed for a quarter of a century . |
| 9 | ‘ None of the things you have done for a start . ’ |
| 10 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 11 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 13 | As a way of understanding these linked themes we have argued for an increased emphasis on ‘ the expressive order ’ : the understandings , interpretations and theories which people have of their social world and the way it is changing . |
| 14 | SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left . |