Example sentences of "had [verb] [noun prp] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 2 | I had known Katharine for many years , and , in common with other members of the Kingman Committee , I had been impressed by her presentation when she appeared before us to answer questions . |
| 3 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |
| 4 | His military government had ruled Mali for 23 years . |
| 5 | Rashidov , who died in 1983 , was a CPSU politburo member under Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and had ruled Uzbekistan for 24 years during which several major corruption scandals , uncovered in 1988-89 , were perpetrated . |
| 6 | I had served Churchill for ten years and for four as his Chancellor , but he told me later ‘ I went for the older man . ’ |
| 7 | Joseph M. McDade , a Republican congressman who had represented Pennsylvania for 30 years , was on May 5 charged with racketeering , conspiracy and falsifying his financial disclosure statements . |
| 8 | Nietzsche 's health had not improved , and in February he had left Basle for two months of convalescence . |