Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 2 | In 1987 the role of Lord Mayor was taken by Richard Horner , a local butcher , who had done it for a few years . |
| 3 | No one had said anything for a long time . |
| 4 | I picked the song because I had written it for a special person and it was not a Dr Hook song . |
| 5 | She was seized with a desire to feel his hand on her breast again , as she had felt it for a fleeting second months ago . |
| 6 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 7 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 8 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 9 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 10 | They had swapped it for a modern flat in a concrete skyscraper . |
| 11 | ‘ Not unless one of them had asked me for a spare key — and no-one did . ’ |
| 12 | A 13-month-old London boy drowned when he fell off a ‘ topple-proof ’ bath chair while his mother had left him for a few moments . |
| 13 | Did she agonizingly miss the faithless Finn who had deserted her for a cross-eyed creature ? |