Example sentences of "i have [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 2 | ‘ He made the ears out of an old pair of mouse ears I 'd used for a previous party , ’ she says . |
| 3 | Of all the opportunities I 'd had for a good chat-up line , simply croaking ‘ Hospital ’ was n't one of my best . |
| 4 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 5 | ‘ Why did I have to fall for a suicidal maniac ? ’ she asked herself , and cleaned the flat from top to bottom to take her mind off the image of Jack dangling on the end of a rope above a muddy slit somewhere in subterranean Yorkshire ! |
| 6 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 7 | I had to wait for a considerable time for the expanse of blue sky above my chosen scene ( figure XX ) to be substantial enough for photography . |
| 8 | ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola . |
| 9 | And I realised , well I had realised for a long time that dieting was n't the answer for me . |
| 10 | When I was two my mother had bought me a number of premium bonds and ever since I had hoped for a little win . |
| 11 | So I had stood for a little while on the bridge and saluted as the ship went down after all . |
| 12 | SAFER THAN I HAD FELT FOR A LONG , LONG TIME |
| 13 | ‘ I had to stop for a quick drink on the way home with John Dyson , ’ he said . |
| 14 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 15 | WHEN CHRIS OWEN , Head of Natural History Publications at the Natural History Museum , published a painting of mosses that I had done for the National Museum of Wales , I had no idea that it would lead to a further and more exciting job offer , so a call out of the blue from Chris was a welcome surprise . |
| 16 | The night before , I had gone for a long , lonely walk along the banks of the Tormes , crossing and recrossing the Roman bridge , hoping against hope that I might somehow find you also walking there . |
| 17 | There was no use pretending it had n't happened : I had wished for a pure Pacific experience , a truly new world experience at the dawning of this day , yet it had become hopelessly muddied with a relic of the old world and the Ocean whose time , we are now supposed to believe , has passed . |
| 18 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 19 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 20 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 21 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 22 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 23 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 24 | erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case . |
| 25 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 26 | Well I 've worked for the past two year really |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll cope , I expect , I 've coped for the past year … ’ |
| 28 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 29 | I wonder — I 've wondered for a long time — was I right , or was I wrong ? |
| 30 | Archbishop Eames said : ‘ I have believed for a long time there is a crying need for the Churches to examine the problem of sectarianism in depth . |