Example sentences of "he had [verb] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 2 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 3 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 4 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 5 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |