Example sentences of "[pron] have [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I have for a long time . |
| 2 | I went from that to a Gibson EB3 , then to a Rickenbacker 4001 , which I had for a long time . |
| 3 | I had for a long time being trying to find a way of showing the heat-pain argument to be invalid , because I could not accept the conclusion , that heat exists only as a sensation in the mind . |
| 4 | When it was all over I had on a wet blouse , but Shirnette had one on too . |
| 5 | I had on a white guipure lace dress and matching turban with a huge feather on the front . |
| 6 | As I could n't take Lisabeth with me , it was the nearest thing I had to a lethal weapon . |
| 7 | His interest and concern calmed me and sitting in his study at the back of the church I felt more at peace than I had in a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ I feel better about the market now than I have for a long time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |
| 10 | I have for a long time had on file one respected artist 's offer to arrange an exhibition of a hundred of his works , and then to hand them straight over as a gift to the Russian Cultural Foundation . |
| 11 | I have for a long time been suspicious of the doctrine of gradualism in politics and the foibles of the Foreign Office , which uses the double-speak of diplomacy , as I saw in the Anglo-Irish diktat and now smell in Maastricht . |
| 12 | ‘ I saw Everton more times in the last few months of last season than I have for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | So erm I 'm looking forward to this season much more than I have for a long time , so I ca n't wait , wherever I end up , we 'll have to see , but erm I 'm looking forward to it anyway . |
| 14 | ‘ Better than I have in a long time . ’ |
| 15 | Rather than seeing labourism within the narrow confines of a trade union dominated political intervention at the level of the state , I wish to consider it as a political culture within working-class experience at all levels , which can not be reduced to a bourgeois ethos , and which has as a major component ( but only a component ) the Labour Party . |
| 16 | Safety , which has for a long time been assumed to be at odds with commercial considerations , is now a business interest . |
| 17 | Miller only credited Bartram with a few plants in the Dictionary : Lilium philadelphum , ‘ at present very rare in English gardens ’ , Toxicodendron serratum , ‘ not yet flowered ’ and Veratrum americanum , another rarity which had in a good season both flowered and seeded in this country . |
| 18 | This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp . |
| 19 | Could you have with a bad character , an actively hostile house ? |
| 20 | And were they based on areas as well , did you have like a different gang for different streets sort of thing ? |
| 21 | And how how many haystacks would you have in a good year . |
| 22 | When I moved in to my flat she had to a certain extent taken me over , and treated me like an erring and somewhat unintelligent son who obviously needed the care and attention of a responsible adult . |
| 23 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 24 | She felt more alive than she had for a long time . |
| 25 | She had on a long blue dress . |
| 26 | She had on a superb raspberry pink swagger coat . |
| 27 | She had on a bright green crimplene suit and a dark green hat . |
| 28 | As she prepares for her gold medal exam for speech and drama next month through the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art , she confesses she has cast aside ambitions she had as a ten- year-old to be an actress . |
| 29 | Of course the moth went for the light , Jay went under the pillow , and the moth settled on a huge picture she had of a golden African dawn . |
| 30 | When I talked to my mum , she had about a grand on , on debts . |