Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who got selected either for constituencies , or for the Central Office list when it was established in the 1950s , tended to be those whom old buffers in the party already had a pretty good idea about , because they knew their fathers , their regiments or their schools . |
| 2 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 3 | West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years . |
| 4 | Among the landed classes men expected to marry young ( by our standards ) in the Middle Ages and women younger ; and probably had done so for centuries before our period opens . |
| 5 | He add-ed : ‘ She had co-operated earlier for photographs . ’ |
| 6 | A good many had worked there for years , some going back to the days of her grandfather . |
| 7 | Born and brought up in the area , unlike other members of the group who had lived locally for Periods of one to seven years . |
| 8 | These people had lived here for years ; the places showed all the signs of long habitation . |
| 9 | Most had made their lives in Alexandria ; many families had lived there for generations . |
| 10 | Many of them had lived there for decades . |
| 11 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 12 | She 'd found no sign of life anywhere on her travels , no supporting staff , though the house and gardens looked as if an army of faithful family retainers had slaved there for centuries . |