Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] 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 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 7 | You 've all heard that and I 've heard it for about thirty years now . |
| 8 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 9 | I had bought them for very little money from a woman who looked needy . |
| 10 | I 've had them for over three years now and they have n't remembered a single birthday or Christmas . |
| 11 | Well I , I , I , I 've see Mrs I 've had her for so many , many years |
| 12 | Keep putting up , we 've had her for about two years have n't we ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I do n't really know , I 've had it for about three week . |
| 15 | you you 've had it for about three or four weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've used it for about three years . |
| 17 | So erm now I 've talked you for so long that I 've not got time to play this bit about the werewolves at Retford you see |
| 18 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 19 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And because he thought she had followed him for just that purpose ? |
| 22 | The white elephant had finally emerged from the confusion behind which its promoters had concealed it for so many years . |
| 23 | He was condemned by an image which had haunted him for over thirty years : a poor defenceless body Iying curled up in a vast flat dismal landscape , a father abandoned to his lonely fate . |
| 24 | She picked up the stock records , she had studied them for so long that her head ached . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Brilliant you see , he 's done it for so many years can work out the space and everything . |
| 27 | Thing is , my old man 's had them for so long that he just , he he puts them in a in a cup of this like sterile solution every night . |