Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sainsburys is er the very one that has done it for years ! |
| 2 | One that has plagued me for some while . |
| 3 | The heroic all-rounder visited a specialist in London yesterday about a shoulder injury that has dogged him for some weeks . |
| 4 | I have set down the following experience as one that has haunted me for many years . |
| 5 | It still thinks that by interfering and pouring on more layers of bureaucracy and government it will achieve something that has eluded it for so long and will continue to elude it if it takes that path . |
| 6 | And it was then she finally asked me a question that has bothered her for twenty years . |
| 7 | The hatred that had motivated him for so long had inexplicably withered and died . |
| 8 | Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour . |
| 9 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 10 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 11 | Double world light-middleweight champion , Diane Bell , showed no sign of the back injury that had sidelined her for the past month . |
| 12 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 13 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 14 | It was as if there was something out there — or perhaps several somethings — struggling to break free of a force that had held them for a very long time . |
| 15 | The same sight would confront him that had confronted him for the past fifteen years . |
| 16 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 17 | That weeping was his weeping ; the grief that had overwhelmed him for so long . |
| 18 | It was quite soon after the terrible motor accident that had crippled him for life , and she had just come in from the garden with a bunch of flowers for him . |
| 19 | Industry was geared up , under Lend Lease , to produce the armaments that would defeat Hitler , and also pull the country finally and forever out of the stagnation that had crippled it for a decade . |
| 20 | The short , nine-day voyage was accompanied by beautiful weather , and brought with it one of Gould 's most elusive and sought-after species of petrel , one that had tantalised him for weeks aboard the Parsee , although the occasion was , as Gould liked to emphasise , as much a result of his own ingenuity as it was of chance or convenience : |
| 21 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 22 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 23 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 24 | He was sitting on the floor with his legs crossed , and had said nothing for over an hour . |
| 25 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 26 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 27 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , due to all road signposts being removed , he soon lost his way and had to ask someone for directions . |
| 29 | When he had taken up with Jessica he had recognised her as a wild Ulster girl , and had respected her for it . |
| 30 | The Guardian of Jan. 9 , for example , reported that Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) documents circulated internally in late December had been critical of Gorbachev and had blamed him for the " subversion " of socialism in Eastern Europe . |