Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] had [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 2 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 3 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 5 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |