Example sentences of "they had [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had stood there for thousands of years . |
| 2 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
| 3 | The traumatic experiences the men had already been through — the drama of the inrush of slurry , the knowledge that they were entombed , the foul air they had lived in for two days , and the threat of the gathering gas — meant that the half-mile walk wearing apparatus , and a further one and a half miles to the surface , would be a severe test of their remaining stamina and resolve . |
| 4 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 5 | Mr Fallon said a family renting a house valued at £25,000 , and entitled to the maximum price discount of 40pc because they had lived there for some years , could have a mortgage of £10,000 . |
| 6 | Seth had sent for Vicky four years earlier , when he first came to New Orleans , and they had lived together for six months . |
| 7 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 8 | And they had to watch there for six weeks . |
| 9 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
| 10 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 11 | Broadly , the survey confirmed that parents of children with special needs had not been given a real choice of placement , and that they had to fight hard for mainstream provision if this was their choice . |