Example sentences of "have [verb] it for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 2 | The first time I wore this , I 'd had it for about two months and I was talking to Princess Margaret , but as we spoke , I could see she was following my hand with her eyes . |
| 3 | ‘ He quit after a fairly short time — I think he may have done it for only two terms . |
| 4 | Having observed it for over 50 years I am convinced that it is variable over a small range , perhaps from 2.0 to 2.4 , but the fluctuations are very slow , and some catalogues give the magnitude as constant . |
| 5 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 6 | So I do n't think I 've ever I 've had it for about eight months now and I do n't think I 've yet listened to all five in a row without changing it . |
| 7 | I do n't really know , I 've had it for about three week . |
| 8 | you you 've had it for about three or four weeks . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 10 | It was just as I had remembered it for over thirty years , it was just as it used to appear at least once a week at lunch in the Paris household where I spent two years of my youth with a greedy Norman family : two years of study interspersed with the most trying of family meals , endless and infinitely to be dreaded but for the blessed beauty of the food . |
| 11 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 12 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 13 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |