Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | ‘ I have distanced myself for long periods , ’ he said , perhaps with a tinge of regret about teaching posts in Cumberland and Scarborough which took him away from Cleveland . |
| 3 | Premonitions have fascinated her for several years . |
| 4 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 5 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 6 | Chastened , you pick up the bicycle and shuffle indoors , convinced you have ruined everything for good . |
| 7 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 8 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 9 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 10 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 11 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |
| 12 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 13 | Some people I know have used them for departmental budgets , but quite how they do that I do n't know . |
| 14 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 15 | ‘ We have watched him for three and a half years and see nothing . |
| 16 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 17 | I was so pleased with this neat and simple control that we have employed it for several other of the key steps in the cascade — finding , for instance , that the increase in dendritic spines occurs only in a remembering and not in an amnesic group . |
| 18 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 19 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 20 | However , suppose we have proved it for all finite P , Q , R. ( We will shortly do this . ) |
| 21 | I have eaten nothing for five days . |
| 22 | Only women who have never taken the pill and those who have taken it for eight or more years are followed up beyond the age of 45 . |
| 23 | But we have budgeted it for eighty five K at thirty six per cent and we achieved a hundred and three at thirty eight . |
| 24 | I have kept them for two years and found them naturally inquisitive and great characters . |
| 25 | Oxfam sell Crakapax ( they have ordered them for this Christmas and are waiting for deliveries ) which contain pre-cut cracker shapes in metallic foil . |