Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [verb] for three [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks .
2 My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio .
3 Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared .
4 When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used .
5 After we had rehearsed for three weeks , on the very last night of rehearsal , we worked till four in the morning then photos were taken of us in these spangled costumes ; because they stretched from our ankles to our necks , we could n't sit down .
6 They had to settle for three consolation points , leaving them second three points below Gresford .
7 In National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King ( 1930 ) 46 T.L.R. 594 ; 47 T.L.R. 110 the suppliant company claimed repayment of betting duty which they had paid for three years in respect of the operation of a totalisator .
8 The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three .
9 Stravinsky was then 28 , and much influenced by the gorgeous and sumptuous orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov , with whom he had studied for three years .
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