Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 2 | But did you know the sharp-suited musician from New Orleans has already been tinkling away for more than 22 years ! |
| 3 | has already been signed up for Crediton Rugby Club . |
| 4 | A Working Party has already been set up for this purpose and will have met by the time this issue of ‘ Contact ’ is published and mailed to registered Members of Convocation . |
| 5 | It has already been used twice for the circulation of internal mail and resealed by means of staples and Sellotape . |
| 6 | These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed . |
| 7 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
| 8 | The concept of quality of life of older people , particularly in residential settings but also in the community , has been the subject of considerable research and academic interest ( e.g. Hughes , 1990 ) and has also been developed considerably for application in inspection and quality assurance procedures ( e.g. Sinclair and Gibb , 1990 ; DoH , 1989c ) . |
| 9 | More specialised sampling has also been carried out for gold and pathfinder elements ( Edmunds , personal communication October 1989 ) . |
| 10 | Ideas have been sought from related organisations and the public throughout the project , and the draft management plan has now been sent out for consultation . |
| 11 | Well if she gets here at quarter past seven and three hours is quarter past ten , and she 's supposed to be at the Penny Farthing at nine o'clock , so you know , I , I do n't feel as though we are you know getting erm our money 's worth from her at the moment , erm also erm she told me in the beginning that this was only go on was going on for about six weeks , well it has now been going on for over eight weeks and she now says that erm she does n't know how longer it 's going on for and I think she is just erm stalling us . |
| 12 | It is now up to the mainstream physicists to show that they can organise themselves to the point where they can justify their basic funds , and the extra money that has now been set aside for them ( This Week , 3 February , p 287 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ No detailed programme has yet been drawn up for the production of the District Wide Plan . |
| 14 | The Prudential Assurance-owned unit has attracted a rent of £8,000 a year for a 15-year lease and has subsequently been put up for sale . |
| 15 | The term indeterminate colitis was originally proposed as a temporary histopathological category for such unclassified cases in fulminant disease but has recently been used clinically for patients with inflammatory bowel disease in whom the nature of the underlying disease can not be firmly established . |
| 16 | If anything , I tend to believe that it will make you unhappy : either immediately unhappy , as you are impaled by incompatibility , or unhappy later , when the woodworm has quietly been gnawing away for years and the bishop 's throne collapses . |
| 17 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 18 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 19 | This seems to have affected the fate of Frederic , Lord Leighton 's ‘ Sibyl ’ , bought-in at £145,000 against an estimate of £180–250,000 at Sotheby 's and previously sold at Christie 's in 1987 for £250,000 ; Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema 's ‘ A Sculptor 's Model ( Venus Esquilina ) ’ bought-in at £150,000 against an estimate of £200–300,000 at Christie 's , consigned by a Japanese corporation but familiar from the front window of a London gallery within very close proximity of Christie 's ; and John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 's lovely ‘ Our Lady of the Water Gate , ’ bought-in at £55,000 against an estimate of £80–120,000 at Christie 's , having previously been offered privately for around £180,000 . |
| 20 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 21 | ‘ It was as if they had all been locked up for three days the way they rushed in , ’ said a security man who saw the 8.30am rush . |
| 22 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 23 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 24 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 25 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 26 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 27 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 28 | McKoy , the home town favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 29 | McKoy , the hometown favourite , had already been called up for one false start — and it seemed certain that he would be disqualified after appearing to have another flyer second time around . |
| 30 | In general these texts give the impression that where interpretative principles had already been worked out for legacies , trusts followed them ; and where they had not , much the same principles were adopted for both institutions . |