Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vic told me I had to suffer for my art . |
| 2 | Ted Power , a fine collector , whom I had known for years and who had seen odd paintings in mixed shows wanted to buy something . |
| 3 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 4 | Er , I I had to care for my elderly parents when my son was two and a half and I had a six month old baby and er , I would agree with the previous speaker , it certainly does change your life . |
| 5 | Later I had the honour and privilege of meeting Odette Churchill , the heroine of the French Resistance , someone I had admired for years , ever since reading about her exploits when she received her medal after the war . |
| 6 | It could only be someone who had gone for a marathon walk or a solitary picnicker who had lain down and fallen asleep . |
| 7 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 8 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 9 | I took stock of my fur-lined leather jacket which I had prized for years , and I did n't see any problem . |
| 10 | ‘ Indeed , writing the novel ( Nice Work ) was for me a process of discovery — of hitherto unknown aspects of the city in which I had lived for nearly thirty years . ’ |
| 11 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 12 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 13 | I stared out of the window at this country about which I had wondered for so long . |
| 14 | As the DGM was later to point out ‘ The 45 per cent included the revenue which I had negotiated for transfer to other districts which had been dependent on Horton and Banstead . |
| 15 | ‘ The only real pre-requisite for a trade within the forces police is a GSCE grade C or better in English and a special forces driver 's licence which I had to qualify for at RAF St Athan . |
| 16 | I refer to my letter to you of 18 May last , in which I explained that the Agreement that you had signed for the above tape had not been signed on behalf of Oxford University Press , and that the duplicate copy which you had retained for your records needed to be returned to us for signature in Oxford before I could despatch your copy of the tape to you . |
| 17 | He thought her pleasure in Florian 's win was for her once and future lover and , presumably , that in her euphoria she was going to let him jump this queue of men he had convinced himself she had waiting for her sexual favours . |
| 18 | ‘ Tomorrow 's always another day , ’ she said , trotting out one of her many sayings , and he neither smiled nor mocked at her , but went downstairs to eat the supper which she had prepared for him , because that was the way she showed him her love and concern , and the least which he could do was respond to it . |
| 19 | The third column , which she had reserved for telephone numbers , was so far entirely blank . |
| 20 | He had adopted his slighting manner , he knew , to protect himself from the attraction which she had possessed for him from the first moment that he had seen her . |
| 21 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 22 | 20–6 Mrs McIver , wife of the Moderator , asked to be relieved of the duty of leader of praise which she had undertaken for the past two years . |
| 23 | And later she had found that his body , scarred as it was , was better than the one which she had imagined for him , as a living and breathing man was better than a marble statue or painting , and her vision had lacked life . |
| 24 | But she did make two purchases from the hat and the dress departments with the money which J. D. O'Conner had given her for the two articles which she had written for him . |
| 25 | He had his ships and politics , she had her piano which she had practised for over twenty years , so now let the dream come true . |
| 26 | Now , though , she perceived that many things which she had taken for granted in her life , simple , cosy , homely things , were , in fact , great luxuries . |
| 27 | Mr Dakin burst out , but the old cow brushed past us and marched without hesitation into the stall which she had occupied for all those years . |
| 28 | When she had finished hanging out the washing , before she went for the weekly shop at SavaCentre , Sara applied her lipstick , and around her throat she squirted the toilet water which she had had for three years and never before used . |
| 29 | A 45 year old woman with a strong family history of ischaemic heart disease was referred with left sided chest pain , which she had had for six years . |
| 30 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |