Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We had heard nothing for two weeks , ’ the man said nervously . |
| 2 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 3 | Mohawk Grand Chief Joe Norton warned that there would be further violence unless the Quebec authorities agreed to return policing of the reservation to the control of the Indians , who had policed it for 11 years prior to the outbreak of the 1990 trouble . |
| 4 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 5 | For Small , getting out the magazine that had absorbed her for two years was the commitment , not this eccentric lurch into the unknown . |
| 6 | In June 1548 , when the Scots had suffered it for four years , lord Methven reported to Mary of Guise the results of his inquiries as to why the Englishmen were favoured . |
| 7 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 8 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 9 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 10 | At dawn on Friday , John Major came of age , shaking off the shadow of Mrs Thatcher that had dogged him for 16 months . |
| 11 | The decision came after a special tribunal in Peshawar had found Gilani guilty on April 24 of the misappropriation of public funds , and had disqualified him for seven years from a seat in the National Assembly . |
| 12 | I had to use it for one of Andy |
| 13 | Just imagine what your reaction would be if you were given a brand new washing machine and told that it had to last you for seventy years or more . |
| 14 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 15 | Then in late July I had my clubs stolen again I had left them for ten minutes at about 9.30pm and when I came back they were gone and it was at the time when I was about to play in two large junior competitions . |
| 16 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 17 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 18 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 19 | His squad of reporters , a dozen strong , who had tailed him for five years , was disbanded . |