Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd suffered enough for my mistake . |
| 2 | And then how would I have felt , she asked herself as she hurled the jeep down the motorway , finding that I 'd fallen again for a man as cold and hard as that — finding out when it was too late what he was really like ? |
| 3 | I 'd tried hard for many years to get him to stop , in the face of informed professional opinion , but he had always shrugged it off . |
| 4 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 5 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 6 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 7 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 8 | I had wanted to return to Scapa for some time , to refresh my memories of that extraordinary and beautiful place and of the strange life I had lived there for nearly three years . |
| 9 | Me , I had reached the bottom of the bottle and figured I had lost enough for one weekend . |
| 10 | This was a thing that I had to judge entirely for myself . |
| 11 | " I had to go away for several days and while I was gone your mother saw some papers in Devraux 's desk . |
| 12 | If I had gone away for a couple of days , I returned expecting almost to have to push the door open but to my amazement , the place was immaculate . |
| 13 | I remember my excitement when I had arrived there for the first time from St Aubyn 's . |
| 14 | I 've searched everywhere for her . |
| 15 | I 've sent away for it . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've lived here for years , and I 've never heard of a Mrs Rochester ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I already feel as if I 've lived here for months . |
| 18 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 19 | Hurry up now , there 's a small pie here I 've made specially for you . |
| 20 | I think it 's the first birdie I 've made there for about nine years , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Anyway , I 've finished here for the present . ’ |
| 22 | I 've worked only for the common good , humbly trying to advance knowledge … ’ |
| 23 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 24 | I 've worked hard for this house over the past three years . |
| 25 | In actual fact Rosemary had given her the idea about deglamorising herself , but it was with truth , when , feeling forced to reply , Leith answered , ‘ I 've worked hard for my qualifications . |
| 26 | I 've worked hard for my money all my life and I do n't see why anyone should be able to break their way into someone 's home and just take what they want |
| 27 | The bloke who was responsible for signing us I 've known now for about nine years , so there was no question about what sort of music we 'd be doing . ’ |
| 28 | Do n't you know what I 've come here for ? |
| 29 | He said , ‘ Bathsheba , I 've come here for you ! ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll take a bus , ’ I thought fondly , ‘ one of those new little fat C2 buses I 've sat behind for so many hours , wishing them in hell . |