Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] had for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 2 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 3 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |
| 4 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 5 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |