Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 3 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 4 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 5 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 6 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 7 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 8 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 9 | Olives are grown in many Mediterranean countries , where they have been cultivated for centuries and have been an important trading crop since ancient times . |
| 10 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 11 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 12 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 13 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 14 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 15 | This tradition happily has been continued by his successors whose duties have included presiding at the Annual General Meeting , an unpredictable , lively affair where it has been known for election to the Board to be determined by the toss of a coin ! |
| 16 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 17 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 18 | She said : ‘ All that has held us together for years is that I 've been working for you . |
| 19 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 20 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 21 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 22 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 23 | ‘ It is obvious that I have been exploited for propaganda purposes in a film in which I should never have allowed myself to appear , ’ he bitterly commented afterwards . |
| 24 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |
| 25 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
| 26 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 27 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 28 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 29 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 30 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |