Example sentences of "had [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in that year he had taught for seven weeks in the school ( a replacement master could not start immediately ) and had been paid £7 . |
| 2 | The UEFA control and disciplinary committee said Dinamo had arranged for 5,000 dollars to be paid to the referee , linesmen and fourth official before the home game on August 18 . |
| 3 | After the concert she had to wait for four minutes before McCartney could rejoin her … while he accepted a standing ovation . |
| 4 | They also pointed to an incident during which a patient had to wait for four hours for an anaesthetist . |
| 5 | We only had to wait for five minutes for the first boooooom … and a second … and a third . |
| 6 | As it happened , this queen mother was the most remarkable and able of them all , and it is therefore something of an irony that she had to wait for twelve years , until 1554 , and stage a successful coup , before obtaining the place which earlier queen mothers had immediately enjoyed . |
| 7 | The trouble was that after they were born , children had to wait for six years before they could be sent to school and forgotten for most of the day . |
| 8 | He had to wait for fifteen minutes before he was admitted to the Agency 's annexe . |
| 9 | Forbes thus had to wait for fifteen years or so before the coveted post came up ; during this time Jameson sometimes teetered but always recovered , and his courses and museum fell behind the times . |
| 10 | That is why I I I mentioned those mar , those remarks right at the beginning , God will never ever send another pentecost , the only people that God told to wait were those early disciples to wait in Jerusalem until the Holy Spirit came and they had to wait for ten days from the ascension of Jesus until the Holy Spirit came . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We had flown for thirty hours in the fortnight . |
| 13 | Norton et al found that 25%-35% of women had delayed for five years or more before seeking medical advice . |
| 14 | Six seconds of fame after hours of queueing for this fan of a fan THE Lamports had queued for four hours before they were interviewed for the Antiques . |
| 15 | After I had queued for forty-five minutes some returns returned and we were in . |
| 16 | Kim had booked for three days — the longest time available . |
| 17 | Cellulose flake manager was 46 when he obtained his NEBOSH qualification — the first exam he had sat for 26 years . |
| 18 | Seth 's van , which he had owned for four days , was a write-off . |
| 19 | The military prosecutor had applied for nine death sentences , but when the sentences were announced on Aug. 30 five men were acquitted , 11 received sentences ranging from one to 20 years ' imprisonment , and the group 's leader Habib Lessoued received life imprisonment . |
| 20 | Quiet country parsons , who had applied for twenty shares in the hope of being allotted one , now had to buy all twenty , at fifty pounds apiece , or go to debtor 's jail — all for a railway that the judge , barrister , company , and jailer knew would never exist . |
| 21 | The US press reported on the same day that the two men whose extradition was being sought , Abdel Baset al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , had met for two days , earlier in May , with a leading Washington criminal defence attorney , Plato Cacheris . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Beside it , a large window showed the first view that Tug had seen for five days . |
| 24 | Long-standing staff say February was the busiest they had seen for 20 years . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 27 | She would just have to cling to her professional integrity as she had done for fifty years , and she would , as she had always tried to , make that sufficient . |
| 28 | The house looked as it had done for three centuries ; Lord Cumbermound was in no doubt that it would manage another three . |
| 29 | The hot water pipes gurgled as they had done for ten years . |
| 30 | He was , as her mother had said for twenty years , the laziest codder God ever put breath into , but Claire loved him , and he loved her as if she were his own . |