Example sentences of "[pers pn] had for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 2 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 3 | those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections |
| 4 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 5 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 6 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 7 | That was the doctoring that we had for a broken collar bone you see ? |
| 8 | Even as he asked the question , Seb realised that it no longer hurt in the way it had for a long time . |
| 9 | In its annual report published on Oct. 2 the Fund confirmed that in the 12 months ended April 30 , 1991 , it had for the first time since 1984-85 made more disbursements ( 6,823 million special drawing rights : SDR1=US$1.365 as at Oct. 2 ) than it had received through repurchases or repayments ( SDR5,608 million ) . |
| 10 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 11 | He felt happier than he had for a long time . |