Example sentences of "had [verb] for some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had to wait for some months in order to get a passage and finally set oft on my birthday in January . |
| 2 | We had to wait for some days until a convoy of ships was ready . |
| 3 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
| 4 | Phyllis enjoyed telling all that had happened for some days . |
| 5 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 6 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 7 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 8 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
| 9 | ‘ However , in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position . ’ |