Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] for several " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 2 | Miss Grimes , with whom she had worked for several years , was hardly the most congenial of companions but at least she was familiar . |
| 3 | The latter was one of Captain Buck 's SIG men , a Palestinian Jew who had served for several years in the German army . |
| 4 | ( a ) How could you test if the factor which causes SAD was lack of light or the cold weather ? ( b ) Would you get more information by considering patients who had suffered for several years rather than only once ? ( 2 ) Bright light is often found to bring relief . |
| 5 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 6 | Undeniably , they offered possibilities for assured if modest financial support for the WEA , a position which it had sought for several years . |
| 7 | ’ And he had stood for several minutes in the passage , paralysed with embarrassment , and shame and chagrin . |
| 8 | Further , his duties were substantially a continuation of those which he had undertaken for several years in connection with Tutorial Classes and the annual summer school arrangements . |
| 9 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 10 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |
| 11 | Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours . |
| 12 | He had to think for several seconds before he came out with , " Moi , je suis Italien . " |
| 13 | His explanation that he had worked for several years for one master , until his employer had died , mollified Jonadab a little . |
| 14 | Instead he had worked for several years for Lintas , the advertising agency owned by Unilever , only abandoning this job a few months before war broke out in order to concentrate for a period entirely on his painting . |
| 15 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |