Example sentences of "have [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've had them for two months . |
| 2 | We 've had her for eight years . ’ |
| 3 | He says yes , I 've had her for thirteen years , but I 'm building another one , also with a steam engine . |
| 4 | We 've enjoyed this one , we 've had it for two weeks . |
| 5 | I 've had it for all this time , I hope . |
| 6 | and she do , she said she decided that , you know it was a bit , well I never change me post office , said I 've had it for all these years but she said it was a lovely bungalow and she says er what |
| 7 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , we 've had it for several weeks now . ’ |
| 9 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |
| 10 | If they 've had it for more than a month , encourage them to get out for some fresh air but not too much vigorous exercise . |
| 11 | Erm but I mean obviously it 's a different situation , and the Chancellor 's still got some manoeuvring to do , but we could end up in , in rapid inflation again , because we have n't had it for ten years . |
| 12 | I did n't know she had this cold and she 'd had it for ten |
| 13 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 14 | I 've had it for some time — like a little nest |
| 15 | I think it was a car that she 'd had for was well looked after her dad used to see to it for her but it was she 'd had it for some years and she was always poodling about in you see . |
| 16 | She 'd had it for seven years , and it had been a few years old when she and Tony had bought it . |
| 17 | so , she thinks like they were , they were on show these just for a wardrobe and a set of drawers for a thousand quid , he let her have them for six hundred , so she 's been and paid a deposit on them |
| 18 | I could have you for that ! ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She 'd have you for that suggestion . ’ |
| 20 | Jeff was voted their Player of the Year last season , but they 've let me have him for six months . |
| 21 | A lot of people like it because basically th er when you look after a police dog it becomes your pet as well , you take it home with you and you take it to work with you , and the u you 'll have a police dog for sort of like its working life of seven to eight years , so basically you 're gon na have him for seven to eight years and he becomes a fa like a family pet . |
| 22 | I shall have her for that , you see if I do n't ! |
| 23 | I 'll have 'em for this , Gerry . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , well you just said I could have it for thirty . |
| 25 | and so this guy was selling it for forty , Vicky ordered her canoe there and he was quite a young man and so alright she said hi big boy how about letting me have it for thirty five if you 're willing to ha are you willing to haggle I mean my friend did buy a whole canoe he sort of |
| 26 | he sort of smiled and said oh okay I 'll let you have it for thirty five and I said done . |
| 27 | You can have it for five quid . |
| 28 | Five hundred you can have it for fifteen hundred |
| 29 | he 's let her have it for six hundred pound , because |
| 30 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |