Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the New Year the organisation was moving from the Dickensian building in the city centre which it had inhabited for over fifty years to a new purpose-built high-rise office block south of the river , an area not long cleared of old slum dwellings and deratinised . |
| 2 | A shadowy image of herself stood there , nodding and smiling shyly , while the real Isabel remained in the cold , lonely place she had inhabited for so long and grimly decided that the first step was almost accomplished . |
| 3 | Total duration of oral contraceptive use was unimportant , but a very low rate of endometriosis was found among women currently or recently taking the pill compared with women who had never taken it or had stopped for over 12 months . |
| 4 | Silence had fallen for almost three weeks and then her father had written again , with the utmost brevity , to say he would review the situation when he saw it and that they could get away after the harvest . |
| 5 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 6 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 7 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 8 | This change was designed to limit the scope for corruption ; the system of " preferences " had made for easily identifiable blocs of voters who could be organized — especially by the Mafia and other such groups in the south — to swing behind a particular candidate in return for future favours . |
| 9 | In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years . |
| 10 | All this was merely a convention as far as I was concerned , an exercise I had anticipated for nearly ten years . |
| 11 | After a pause , Donna said she and Angelica had talked for maybe two hours between Toronto and Sudbury , and Donna was sure Angelica could n't have murdered Steve , she was lost without him . |
| 12 | According to her watch she had slept for about six minutes . |
| 13 | I had slept for almost four hours more , made myself a mug of tea at about nine o'clock and carried it outside while I wished Mick and Paddy a merry Christmas . |
| 14 | She had slept for almost three hours . |
| 15 | All those words he had hoarded for so long and released so grudgingly . |
| 16 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 17 | The coolies sensed their fright instantly and in a moment forty or fifty of them were advancing menacingly on the little group of overseers , brandishing the implements they had used for so long to tend the rubber plantation under their ruthless tutelage . |
| 18 | In his opening address on Sept. 16 , the IAEA 's Director-General Hans Blix had called for more stringent measures to help detect illicit nuclear weapons programmes and recommended that national intelligence agencies share information with the IAEA on possible violations of nuclear non-proliferation accords . |
| 19 | Volume I covers the period of 1916 to 1930 and concludes with Magritte 's return to Brussels from Paris where he had stayed for nearly three years . |
| 20 | ‘ He was n't , ’ said my mother , perhaps because she had concurred for too long and now it was time for contradiction . |
| 21 | These had been brought up sharp in a mathematically exact line by one of those old-fashioned razors that the previous generation had employed for more antisocial purposes . |
| 22 | The state had persisted for over three days now . |
| 23 | The effect of capitalism on the women of farming families was therefore to trap them even further in their role as producers of labour power and to intensify the feeling which men and women of these families had experienced for so long that ‘ Life itself is work ’ . |
| 24 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 25 | Less than a fortnight later a panic call from Mrs Brodowitz revealed that Anita was engaged to a man she had known for only two days — ‘ a real Cockney , who appears to have a lot of money ’ . |
| 26 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 27 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 28 | I had hoped for more happy years . ’ |
| 29 | But she had hoped for too much , and Matthew remained unforgiving , not actively unfriendly towards her but always out of her reach . |
| 30 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |