Example sentences of "have [verb] for [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Scottish Dairy Trade Federation has said for some time it is not happy with that .
2 By the time she has budgeted for these basics she has £50 left for the six-week holiday .
3 She reminded me that I was a married man — forbade me to approach her or speak to her again in that way , but at the same time I knew I had made her think about the old days — the attraction we 'd had for each other which she could not deny .
4 Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed .
5 If I 'd paused for more thought I perhaps would n't have had the nerve , but I simply opened his door , checked up and down the corridor for observers ( none ) and went inside , shutting myself in .
6 She sat there going well why should we have to pay for poor people who ca n't be bothered to get jobs , they 're so lazy !
7 I said no , she said you wo n't leave the union will you , I said no , she said alright we 'll buy one at Haydock , still in the Lancashire region and the reason why the union is my second love , obviously my first love is me family , is what it 's done for me , but I also think what I 've done for those people who represent me and yourselves in Parliament .
8 So you go into the guy you sell it to him and then you 've lost you 've got for two years you can do nothing with that person .
9 If she had thought for one moment he was serious she would have been deeply shocked .
10 ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners .
11 That I wanted to come from school but they would n't all ow me to come from school because me father had signed for four years you see .
12 It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] .
13 After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low .
14 but by the time they 've stood for five minutes they are .
15 Instead , they have argued for non-discriminatory tariffs which , in effect , would be imposed in a way which would take the existing level of imports as a baseline .
16 Police have appealed for any witnesses who may have been in the area in the early hours of Saturday .
17 He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity .
18 People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open .
19 John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering .
20 Others have become Christians at a particular moment in their lives but have believed for good reasons which have had mixed in with them other less solid motives for believing , so that their faith was never based on a strong , established conviction .
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