Example sentences of "i have [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | I have loved it for years . |
2 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |
3 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
4 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
5 | I have followed him for a long time and his work just gets better and better . |
6 | I have prescribed it for fevers |
7 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
8 | If I have to lift them for a match of that importance then I might as well walk out of the job . ’ |
9 | How often is it that I have asked you for money ? |
10 | I have to thank him for that . |
11 | I have denied it for so long , and now I 've had enough . |
12 | ‘ I have to see someone for a minute . |
13 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
14 | I have done it for years . |
15 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
16 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
17 | He said , but he said it does n't give us the excuse of not paying the invoices on time , and he said erm I have warned him for it this morning and he said he will process it , and he said the cheque will be in the post here on Monday . |
18 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
19 | ‘ I have distanced myself for long periods , ’ he said , perhaps with a tinge of regret about teaching posts in Cumberland and Scarborough which took him away from Cleveland . |
20 | Yes , I have prostituted myself for the sake of art . |
21 | And they have happened as I have wanted , and I have taken it for granted that they have because I know where I 'm going . |
22 | I have used it for children 's jacquard sweaters but if you want to do this then knit the welt from * to * finishing at the left of the bed . |
23 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
24 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |