Example sentences of "and [noun sg] [pron] have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 2 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 3 | Her hands were in his dark hair , her mouth kissing him with all the love and desire she had suppressed for so long . |
| 4 | Thieves made off with a cot mattress , pram and potty she had bought for the baby . |
| 5 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 6 | Following a period of wound-licking inactivity , Burns reemerged with a new outfit determined to combine the original SLF manifesto with a degree of maturity and sophistication they 'd striven for but never quite achieved . |
| 7 | She packed up the remains of the bread and cheese they had had for supper , and then watched as he clipped poles together and hammered in pegs ; within minutes the flimsy little structure was up and ready . |