Example sentences of "[noun prp] had for some " in BNC.

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1 Alyssia had for some reason thought that he spent the majority of his life in England , but it turned out that , although he owned a flat in London , he spent quite a lot of time working overseas .
2 Wilson had for some time claimed to the International Transport Workers ' Federation that the Shipping Federation would crumble if the fight could be carried to every port at one and the same time .
3 Amoco had for some time contested liability .
4 Catherine had for some while been recruiting architects from the West , especially from Italy .
5 Stravinsky had for some years been his favourite composer , and he had worked with Hanns on ideas for the setting and costumes .
6 Morris clipped the papers together and tossed them across onto Dyson 's desk Dyson had for some reason assumed that Morris would bring them over and stand beside him while he went through them .
7 Tanberg had for some time been interested in the way that hydrogen behaves in the presence of metals such as palladium .
8 It emerged that Hayman had for some years been connected with the Paedophile Information Exchange ( PIE ) , and had received their contact magazine — carrying advertisements from men seeking sex with children — through the post .
9 James had for some time been accepting an annual pension from Elizabeth in return for promises of assistance against foreign invaders — meaning , at this period , Spain — and on the tacit understanding that he would in no way connive at his mother 's return to Scotland .
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