Example sentences of "[pers pn] had for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 4 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 5 | I was feeling much happier than I had for two years . |
| 6 | The two Bangladeshi boys I had for remedial English all this year . |
| 7 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 8 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 12 | She had for 10 days refused all solid food . |
| 13 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 14 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 15 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 16 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We 're also taking another four hundred thousand out of budgets that we had for planned improvements in staffing as well . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 21 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 22 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 23 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 24 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 25 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 26 | Sweden is currently off the Richter price scale for British clients but Norway , euphoric at winning the 1994 Olympics for Lillehammer , is determined to regain the reputation it had for alpine skiing thirty years ago , when the annual quota of British skiers was 15,000 ; today it is 1,500 , but that will change when the tour operators can be induced to include Norwegian destinations in their programmes . |
| 27 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 28 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He said you were n't to let a new dog off the lead until he had for six weeks |