Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem . |
| 32 | Len had n't spoken for some time . |
| 33 | You had n't spoken for some time . |
| 34 | She had the impression that she had n't smiled for several months . |
| 35 | Rufus , sleek with love and ardent spirits , thought with wonder about how he had actually imagined for all of ten minutes that the house they talked about in the Standard might be Wyvis Hall . |
| 36 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |