Example sentences of "have [verb] for [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 2 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 3 | Mrs Barzach will have a much more difficult time retaining her seat in the 15th arrondissement of Paris , which she has represented for only the past three years and where she is standing against the well-established local RPR mayor ( and deputy mayor of the capital ) . |
| 4 | He has asked for much the same amount of money , divided up in the same way : two-thirds of the money to criminal-enforcement efforts , one-third to treatment . |
| 5 | I have found as somebody who has worked for about a quarter century , in the national liberation movement , in building women 's organisations , in building political parties and helping to build trade unions , that I have had to move from a position of seeing national liberation as solving the question . |
| 6 | In his anguished soliloquy on awaking from what he thinks has only been a dream , we see that the hypocrite has lost for ever the advantage he has had over other people . |
| 7 | And instead of distancing herself from her subject with the language of ‘ scientific ’ detachment , her message is one of passionate commitment to the primates she has studied for almost the whole of her adult life . |
| 8 | The Russian Federation is a new state , which has existed for only a few months . |
| 9 | They 'd hesitated for almost a year before they 'd made the move , finally spurred along by the fact that they 'd grown sick of talking about it . |
| 10 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 11 | The he-man was spoilt for sports car choice in the mid '60s but when it came to the crunch he would probably have gone for either the Austin Healey or the AC Cobra . |
| 12 | I was just thinking rather than having plain which you 'd have to pay for anyway a plain piece of glass and , and er putting lead on it yourself I think that 's a brilliant idea that . |
| 13 | By contrast , some of the smallest features seen have lasted for only a few hours . |
| 14 | This seems to have helped for eventually the topic ceases to be discussed . |
| 15 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 16 | However , that buying policy seems to have existed for only a very short period and to have been an aberration , as indeed is Fishbane 's reign . |
| 17 | She had sat for maybe an hour , in an almost trancelike state , then she heard a rustling and approaching footsteps . |
| 18 | Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment , but it had seemed like a lifetime . |
| 19 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 20 | She had no intention of telling him about Ian White , the medical registrar she had dated for over a year and who she had once thought might have come to mean much more in her life . |
| 21 | It was after ten o'clock , and he would be quite right to disapprove , if it were n't for the fact that , in spite of appearances , she had slept for only a few hours last night . |
| 22 | We had to walk for about a week , sleeping during the day and continuing at night . |
| 23 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 24 | Jenna knew she would feel trapped — she had known for quite a few days — but she was not about to tell Alain Lemarchand that , and she was just gathering her thoughts to answer when Marguerite called from the hall . |
| 25 | In the shared community of sacrifice the party had undoubtedly widened its community of interest with the British people , and was able to speak for all of the people in 1917–18 as it had spoken for only an embattled half in 1913 . |
| 26 | Rescue workers had battled for over an hour to revive them . |
| 27 | Rescue workers had battled for over an hour to revive them . |
| 28 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 29 | ‘ I am extremely sorry to inform you of the death of poor Mary Flint — the haemorrhage from the stomach had ceased for nearly a week in consequence of which her other symptoms became aggravated . |
| 30 | It all stemmed from the fact that England had tried for almost a century to conquer Scotland — and failed . |