Example sentences of "have [verb] for three [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A student nowadays has to graft for three years on a pittance of a grant , begging the government for a loan and at the same time being excluded from any welfare benefits . |
| 2 | A law to encourage the industry to take back and reuse its rubble has languished for three years in the environment ministry . |
| 3 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 4 | ‘ It gave her quite a shock , ’ said Bob Murray , managing director of the International Freight firm in Small Heath , Birmingham , where Carolyn has worked for three years . |
| 5 | Jo emphasised the need for good movement and footwork on the court and acknowledged the work of her fitness advisor , Len Heppel , with whom she has worked for three years . |
| 6 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |
| 7 | They were staying on the eighth floor of the apartment block in the Upper Downtown financial area of the city where their daughter , Anne , a registered nurse , has lived for three years . |
| 8 | By case law the definition applies when this pattern has existed for three years or more . |
| 9 | But of course all that has changed for three reasons . |
| 10 | Nathan thought of the shotgun locked under his chin ; he 'd held himself so rigid that night that he 'd ached for three days afterwards . |
| 11 | The only time I 've ever frozen in an exam was when I 'd gone for three exams solid without kip , one after the other , and I just brain and the other ones were a real struggle and I had to graft my marks out of solid granite y'know I was chiselling away . |
| 12 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 13 | They 'd paid for three days , so the rest could buy a cleaner , could n't it ? |
| 14 | Essentially , they are glorified leisure centres — Butlins for the Costa Brava generation , a way of feeling like you 're abroad without having to wait for three hours at Gatwick Airport . |
| 15 | He should never have asked for three assistants , he realized . |
| 16 | Lothar having tried for three days to do the dividing , said he " could not do so because of his ignorance of the places involved " and so finally left that task to his father . |
| 17 | When we get to 12 o'clock , some of them will have waited for three hours . |
| 18 | A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war . |
| 19 | My family and I had to wait for three weeks in Bombay before getting a boat for England , but during that time I was able to do some useful PR work with newspapers and radio . |
| 20 | Kim had booked for three days — the longest time available . |
| 21 | Another told me she had suffered for three years with a terrible pain in her back but since following the diet the pain had completely disappeared . |
| 22 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 23 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 24 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 25 | And the pain I 've had for three years was far worse . |
| 26 | After we had rehearsed for three weeks , on the very last night of rehearsal , we worked till four in the morning then photos were taken of us in these spangled costumes ; because they stretched from our ankles to our necks , we could n't sit down . |
| 27 | … Negotiations implied weakness : the use of force which the Dutch had employed for three centuries was the most suitable course to pursue . ’ |
| 28 | They had to settle for three consolation points , leaving them second three points below Gresford . |
| 29 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 30 | Stravinsky was then 28 , and much influenced by the gorgeous and sumptuous orchestration of Rimsky-Korsakov , with whom he had studied for three years . |