Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour . |
| 2 | When Elizabeth I came to the throne of England in 1558 she and her government in London ruled less land than her predecessors had done for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | Tears are shed as the traditional homes and communities are left — where the peasants and their families had lived for hundreds of years — and they go to feed the machine . |
| 4 | Spurs grabbed a consolation just before the end from debutant Sol Campbell , who showed the enthusiasm his team-mates had lacked for most of the game . |
| 5 | I was having some of my aquatint plates of the Lake District steel-faced and when , in conversation with Mr. McQueen , he discovered that I came from this area , he recalled that in the past his forebears had printed for another artist from the Lakes . |
| 6 | Will the Minister recognise that some of the benefits that he announced this afternoon are the result of cross-subsidy from the dirty , sleazy pornographic phone calls that he and his colleagues have encouraged for some time ? |
| 7 | Our mountains have survived for millions of years , bearing witness to a history of violent , volcanic activity , glaciation and erosion , but ironically it 's the invention of the internal combustion engine and lightweight waterproof clothing that has put them under the most severe pressure yet . |