Example sentences of "have [pers pn] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had them for two months . |
| 2 | We 've had her for eight years . ’ |
| 3 | He says yes , I 've had her for thirteen years , but I 'm building another one , also with a steam engine . |
| 4 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 5 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 6 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |
| 7 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 8 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 9 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 10 | You can have it for five quid . |
| 11 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 12 | ‘ You guys like it here , you can have it for twenty-five dollars . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You can have it for three nights for ninety then . ’ |
| 14 | I said er or he said we could have it for twenty pound a month and we said |
| 15 | People paid 25 roubles to have it for one night . |
| 16 | So I had him for five hours , normally from 6 pm to 11 pm . ’ |
| 17 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 18 | Did n't know you had it for four years . |
| 19 | Oh yes , and of course when you have it for two days you ca n't actually guard your language all the time |