Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In November of the same year he talked on " The Idiom of Modern Verse " to the Cambridge English Club , where he had for one auditor the appearance of " a very shy , neurotic man " 32 In 1937 he gave an address to the Friends of Rochester Cathedral on religious drama , and lectured on Shakespeare at Edinburgh University he told Lawrence Durrell , however , that he seemed to have spoken about what he himself was interested in doing in the theatre and not about Shakespeare at all.In April 1938 he travelled to Lisbon in order to sit on the jury for the Camoens Prize ; when he came back , he had to address the Friends of Salisbury Cathedral on the poetry of George Herbert and then , two months later , talk on " The Future of Poetic Drama " at an International Theatre Congress in Stratford-upon-Avon . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He will realise the concern that I have for disabled people , who would be hit by such an increase in petrol tax . |
| 4 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 5 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 6 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 7 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 8 | The accounts that you have for this year , have been rearranged . |
| 9 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 10 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 11 | It means the whole sale change of forms and colours and it must reduce the range of other colours that we have for other forms , do n't necessarily go into those wallets . |
| 12 | Yeah erm the amount of police necessary for each area is based on all sorts of statistics , and for the statis statistics that we have for this area , we have or the chief constable 's decided that he 'll allocate a hundred and two police officers to police this area , which we find adequate . |
| 13 | Some of the emphasis which is placed on general and mass trends in modern history arises from a sort of optical illusion , because we have so much more information about the general nature and working of recent societies than we have for earlier periods . |
| 14 | By far the most popular location in recent years has been the Netherlands , for the very good reason that it has for some time offered by far the best deal . |
| 15 | For most of these the use of English presents no problem and the Church does not assume the cultural importance that it has for some of those from ethnic minority cultures who live permanently in Britain . |
| 16 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 17 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 18 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 19 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 20 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 23 | The twentieth century has seen the growth of a considerable literature on management as an acquired skill and it has for some time been possible to obtain academic management qualifications . |
| 24 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |
| 25 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Former Tory Cabinet Minister , leading constitutional expert and friend of the Royal family Lord St John of Fawsley said last night the announcement ‘ must mean a change in the role of the Monarchy because they have for this century , and indeed the whole of the last one , been held up as an example of model family rectitude . |
| 28 | I have argued with my district health authority for many years I know that many hon. Members have done the same with theirs — because it has for various reasons shifted the problem of elderly sick people to the private sector . |
| 29 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 30 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |