Example sentences of "[pers pn] have for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for years . |
| 2 | Getting back to this they 're starting , the first two weeks I 've for timetables , administration etcetera that 's the which was agreed whenever . |
| 3 | I have for years been recycling my NME s , principally to Eastern Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Maureen seems to be kept busy driving after work and I think she looks better than she has for ages . ’ |
| 5 | Erm , have you had for thoughts Joan ? |
| 6 | Oh aye you get to know people that you 've for years and years . |
| 7 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 8 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 9 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 10 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 11 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 12 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 13 | ‘ We ca n't pick who we have for relatives , ’ was the eventual reply . |
| 14 | In many towns they had for generations lived peaceably with , and often trusted by , their Christian neighbours . |
| 15 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 16 | Despite the collapse of communism , the concomitant crisis in left-wing ideas and the unravelling of the Eighties consumerist fantasy , they still maintain , as they have for years , that socialism is an evil malaise , while professing a support for Conservatism , as unblinking as that of a home counties Tory loyalist . |
| 17 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 18 | In Bulgaria traditional music thrives , and unlike British fold music ( collated and ruined by rich Victorians ) it has for centuries remained undiluted by outside influences . |
| 19 | They managed to finish on grass quite happily and their marbled , lean , tender beef caught the eye of the butchers , as it has for centuries . |
| 20 | Situated on the banks of the River Mondego , on an important crossroads , it has for centuries played a vital role in the life of the centre of the country . |
| 21 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 22 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 23 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 24 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 25 | Hepworth gives an account of the process of developing a script that reveals how undynamic was his approach to screenwriting , as well as how low a regard he had for writers : |
| 26 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 27 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 28 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 29 | When he ventured forth , he felt he remained very tentative , lagging the eight and 10-foot putts he had for birdies on the second and third greens . |