Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 2 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 3 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 4 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 6 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 7 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 8 | But it was n't until Ellen came to pick him up that he discovered that she had already bought everything for a picnic lunch . |
| 9 | He had not seen her for a while and he was pretty sure she had committed suicide . |
| 10 | She had not seen him for a month . |
| 11 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 12 | The education process which the 1970s building surveyor had undergone in the fifties and early sixties had not equipped him for a meaningful and identifiable role in the profession of the seventies . |
| 13 | ( There is a constant flow of Micks visiting our affiliated Royal Navy ship , the destroyer HMS Boxer ; some of Support Company had just joined her for a Channel cruise . ) |
| 14 | she kept in touch with them for some time but er , I 've not seen her for a year so , I would n't know . |
| 15 | The old gag had n't fooled them for a minute . |
| 16 | The knowing look in his eyes let her know she had n't fooled him for an instant , but he gave a single nod . |
| 17 | And it 's rather a good thing this one did look like a tramp , ’ she added , ‘ because you might not have talked to him if you had n't mistaken him for a poor old man , and he would n't have learned anything about Brownies , and we should n't be going to continue to enjoy the use of his lovely Park . |
| 18 | No , he had n't seen her for a week before that weekend ; he had missed her — this with a baleful glance towards the door — and had indeed got as far as ringing her up on the Saturday morning , hoping she would come up for Sunday , but had got no answer from her flat . |
| 19 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 20 | It was when I had n't seen him for a long time and I was all wound up . |
| 21 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 22 | They got worried when they had n't seen him for a while . |
| 23 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 24 | The smell of the plates of food as they were borne past had been tantalising and caused pangs of hunger to strike Meredith 's stomach as though she had n't eaten anything for a week . |
| 25 | Her voice sounded rusty , as if she had n't used it for a long time . |
| 26 | He had only managed to persuade her to join the company because her husband had recently left her for an older woman and she needed to get away from London . |
| 27 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 28 | Your father , and Elizabeth and the others , are very worried about you , because you have not visited them for a long time . |
| 29 | ‘ She 's just noticed she 's not had it for a week or so . ’ |
| 30 | We have n't done it for a while . |