Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can we just throw in a lad who has not played for so long ? |
| 2 | What about Democratic hopeful Paul Tsongas 's lymphoma cancer which has not recurred for over five years ? |
| 3 | A MYSTERY man who has not spoken for almost a week broke his silence yesterday to Darlington police . |
| 4 | The view that certain types of fiction occupy a mediatory position between the ‘ reality ’ of a cultural heritage and contemporary ‘ true ’ accounts of it elevates these texts to a status which the novel has not held for quite some time . |
| 5 | Chrissie is not protected to the same extent because she has not worked for long enough , and there may be grounds for dismissal . |
| 6 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 7 | Now , suddenly , in the affluent West , that world has possibly gone for ever . |
| 8 | Among the largest and most fully-studied lake systems , Lake Bonney in the Dry Valleys of South Victoria Land has probably existed for over 100 000 years ( Hendy et al . , |
| 9 | Dear Catriona I could guess you probably worked this out a long time ago but I might as well get it over with once and for all and I finally managed to summon up the courage to do so , A S A , a secret admirer , no longer exists , he no longer admires secret or otherwise and has n't existed for almost a year now and again you probably know who he is but I might as well tell you it 's me Johnny the eleven year old , now fourteen , you met at Christmas ninety and boy do I feel stupid . |
| 10 | His wife Jennifer said : ‘ He is finding he can do things he has n't done for so long . |
| 11 | I 've never seen him like this though , I 've never se he has n't shaved for about four days . |
| 12 | One can expand the boundaries , and because it is the sentiment of the people that one should expand the boundaries , it has manifestly worked for nearly two centuries in the United Kingdom . |
| 13 | The secret which Carol has faithfully kept for more than four months was finally out yesterday as Commander Tim Laurence and his bride-to-be allowed her to claim the credit she deserves . |
| 14 | Basically he 'd over indulged for too many years , to the point here even he realised he 'd gone too far . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So you 'd best live for ever , had n't you ? … |
| 16 | All he owned were the clothes on his back and a few cassettes which I 'd partly paid for anyway . |
| 17 | His last memory was of a rather half-hearted dawn chorus outside the grey windows , so he 'd probably slept for about two hours . |
| 18 | I was n't sure whether she was referring to regional unemployment figures or the fact that I claimed to have actually worked for once . |
| 19 | Indeed it would not be too much to say that neither woman ever really got over it ; a day before the wedding he had written to Mary Trevelyan , expressing the hope that she would remain on friendly terms both with him and his new wife , but the old intimacy had necessarily gone for ever . |
| 20 | The letters they exchanged were formal , just words on a piece of paper ; the warmth they had all shared for so long was missing . |
| 21 | For most Germans it was bewildering that they should suffer such losses at the hands of a country that had not existed for over 100 years . |
| 22 | I had not prayed for so long I did n't know what to say . |
| 23 | Bertrand Gachot had not raced for over a year , but his relative inexperience did not show as he began to attack Suzuki 's Lola in the race 's later stages . |
| 24 | They had not eaten for nearly two days . |
| 25 | ( Barzani said on May 24 that the legislative and executive councils of the Kurdistan autonomous region created under legislation of 1974 had not operated for over a year . |
| 26 | Milan can be circumspect about visiting conductors , but on this occasion even the orchestra was stamping its approval for Lorin Maazel , a phenomenon I was told the Scala had not witnessed for over two decades ( you would have thought they might have managed it in the recent past for Muti , watching with no evident rancour from the box : but apparently not ) . |
| 27 | Crewe are top of div 3 by 8 points , and had not lost for about 15 games , so were always going to have confidence , good organisation and scoring ability . |
| 28 | Dong , because of his unusual height , had a clear view of the new arrivals above the heads of the crowd — and within a matter of seconds his startled eyes fell on two familiar faces that he had not seen for well over a year . |
| 29 | My mother and I , that morning were to travel to Heathrow Airport to fly to Australia to see family and friends that we had not seen for over five years . |
| 30 | Benedict , at less than ten years of age , was himself delivered into the care of the mother he had not seen for almost two years . |