Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
2 | Reserve team manager Eddie Kyle said : ‘ Parkinson has trained with us for a while . |
3 | These have to be married with the individual dreams of each business who , in addition to achieving the best they can ask for their business , have to perform and deliver what the board has asked of them for the company as a whole . |
4 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
5 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
6 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
7 | I think that often people did n't realise how tired and desperate they were until they 'd sat with her for a while . |
8 | Neither was she too happy about the epithet ‘ min skat ’ , which he 'd applied to her for the second time that day . |
9 | She suffered so much when he did casuals that he 'd lied about it for a long time . |
10 | She 'd slaved for him for the last seven year , and before that ever since she was born — eight or nine year was it — at the Old Mint ? |
11 | I 'd lived with them for a while . |
12 | But that was only because I 'd lived in it for a long time and I got a discount so the house was really |
13 | There is still much to be done but the more we ‘ get it right first time ’ the more confidence our customers will have to remain with us for the long term future . |
14 | John Aubrey [ q.v. ] may have lodged with him for a time . |
15 | One reason that many teachers find the idea of teaching in role worrying is that they feel that once they have embarked on a role they will have to stick with it for the rest of the lesson . |
16 | The current state of Preston 's finances put taxi rides across London among the long list of temptations he would have to put behind him for a while . |
17 | Waxing , a more traditional English technique employed by those unable or unwilling to undertake french polishing , ousted the latter by the 1920s , having run alongside it for the previous forty years . |
18 | He should have remained with her for the hunting , devil take it , instead of going to his friend Woolacombe ! |
19 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
20 | She 'll have to stay on them for a couple of years , more than likely , perhaps for life . |
21 | If you go to America you 'll still have to depend on someone for a living . ’ |
22 | She hoped it had n't been anything serious but if it was n't then he ought not to have brooded over it for the rest of the day . |
23 | It had been with shame and some irritation that he had recognized in himself for the first time the nagging of jealousy . |
24 | And when he 'd finished , Ted had stared at him for a moment in open disbelief . |
25 | The County Council er w would train you but you 'd do your erm year 's training and then you had to work for them for a year , I think it was a year or eighteen months . |
26 | I had to work on them for a long time . |
27 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
28 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
29 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
30 | Iskandara had felt behind her for a chair back and now stood gripping it , her free hand clenched about the head of her stick . |