Example sentences of "[pron] have for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And what opportunities would I have for that in these various er situations ? |
| 2 | And one of the differences that anorexia can become much more visible and identifiable , whereas those of us who have experienced bulimia , which I had for thirteen years , can be extremely secret and well disguised because we normally do n't change from normal body weight . |
| 3 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 4 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 5 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 6 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 7 | The two Bangladeshi boys I had for remedial English all this year . |
| 8 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 9 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 10 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 11 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 12 | He will realise the concern that I have for disabled people , who would be hit by such an increase in petrol tax . |
| 13 | ‘ If by the other , my lady , you refer to the regard the prince and I have for each other , pray be assured it is not pain I feel — but joy , deep joy . |
| 14 | I have for many years enjoyed dabbling with valve amplifiers , usually modifying old ones , but all the information I have has to be gleaned from circuit diagrams or an old Mullard handbook containing a selection of designs ( I 'm sure you know the one ! ) . |
| 15 | As a beekeepers wife I have for many years had to use soap powder rather than scented detergent as bees do n't appreciate the chemical scents in many whiter-than-white products ( Letters NI 208 ) . |
| 16 | The Anniversary Organising Committee had felt that a clock should be commissioned to replace the one which had been stolen , and perhaps because I have for some years specialised in the reproduction of historic clocks , my name was one of those considered . |
| 17 | I have for some reason a picture of a rather youthful military historian . |
| 18 | I have for some time studied the prospects for the privatisation of British Rail . |
| 19 | Finally I went to the Principal of the college , a sympathetic dame whose ear I have for any amount of services rendered , and told her I had decided that term must end slightly earlier for me than the others . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't understand the kind of love I have for this great country we live in . |
| 21 | It is true that by this choice she sacrificed a community life , which has for many women proved nourishing , but she also gained in personal freedom . |
| 22 | What importance do you attach , Mrs , to the observation of the District Council in relation to their erm District Development Plan which has for many years been used for development control , of the following text , which you quote in your paragraph three point six ? |
| 23 | The CNAA , the body which has for many years awarded degrees in polytechnics , will cease operation in September 1992 and will be dissolved in March 1993 . |
| 24 | This has led to a crisis of legitimacy for the system : not only for the prisons ( whose claim to be providing effective rehabilitation was always shaky in many eyes ) but equally for other components of the penal system , notably the probation service which has for some years now been uncertain about what its proper rationale and direction should be . |
| 25 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 26 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 27 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 28 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 29 | His father had been killed in the Rostock riots of 1931 , and it seems that Gustav himself had for certain been a Worker Youth . ’ |
| 30 | A graduate in sociology and education at Florence University , she has for many years contributed articles to Protestant and ecumenical newspapers and currently writes a monthly survey on television for the journal Confronti . |