Example sentences of "had [verb] for [adv] " 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 | Zimbabwe skipper Dave Walters and Jenkins then swopped penalties , but having scored 20 points in 15 minutes , Wales went to sleep and had to wait for outside half Adrian Davies to drop a goal with virtually the last kick of the half for their next score . |
| 4 | He had to wait for more congenial work until 1893 , when Mrs Rylands appointed him her librarian . |
| 5 | Well I had to , I had to wait for about eight months or was it s six months to get one of my lights fixed but for er other things they were quite quick actually . |
| 6 | I had to wait for about ten minutes . |
| 7 | But I still felt as though I 'd have a nervous breakdown if I had to cope for much longer … . |
| 8 | Though we had parted for ever , I did not believe our love was lost . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Well , would n't you if you had to work for only one night a year ? |
| 12 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 13 | But I had now finally to conclude that the love and the joy and the laughter that was Leslie had vanished for ever . |
| 14 | Her sadness had vanished for now . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There was a clear view of the table where she had sat for so long . |
| 18 | She had sat for maybe an hour , in an almost trancelike state , then she heard a rustling and approaching footsteps . |
| 19 | I knew then that my end had come for surely it was the Man who had put the trap on the pole to catch me . |
| 20 | He twisted to shield himself , tried to pull himself round and use that big machine-gun he had carried for so long . |
| 21 | Tsu Ma had pushed for forward through the water until he was standing just below the deep lip of the bank . |
| 22 | Their eyes had met for only the briefest moment , but it had seemed like a lifetime . |
| 23 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 24 | This would entail a sixty-mile round trip for us , but who cared if he could be freed of that perpetual pain he had suffered for so long ? |
| 25 | We have established the independent Pay Review Body which nurses had sought for so long , and increased their pay by 43 per cent . |
| 26 | BRACKEN HOUSE , THE former home of the Financial Times , came under threat at the time ministers were considering the introduction of the Thirty Year Rule on listing ( see page 149 ) , and probably played a major part in securing the greater protection for post-war buildings of excellence that SAVE had sought for so long . |
| 27 | These directions were in complete contradiction to his old habits and Alexander found they were successful in bringing about the change that he had sought for so long . |
| 28 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 29 | Fortunately it was a price she could afford , and she had made the arrangements , coming back to her room to eat the best meal and sleep the best sleep she had done for quite a while . |
| 30 | 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 . |