Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A cumulative succession of nasty surprises has dealt a further destructive blow to an advantage Mr Lawson has enjoyed for so many years that he may have come to taken it for granted : the effect on expectations of confident and respected official forecasting . |
| 2 | But that attitude has prevailed for over half a decade , and ‘ The Curse ’ does n't know whether to clear up the situation of simply amplify the confusion . |
| 3 | He was also one prime source of the notion that has counted for so much among those with misgivings about democracy ever since : that of the tyranny of the majority . |
| 4 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 5 | That strike has proved for always that Asian women workers can be strong , resourceful and courageous , that they can stand up , face the world and demand their rights . |
| 6 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 7 | For a small firm of solicitors in a market town , conveyancing has accounted for about half of all fee income . |
| 8 | It is extraordinary that their image of being hardworking , respectable and down-to-earth has lasted for so many years . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd hoped for so much from that class since I was taking it at an American university , but — ’ |
| 10 | Having talked for quite some time about his own maturation as a screenplay writer , Sixsmith said , ‘ Now . |
| 11 | What it does have — and this is a very important thing for me , having lived for so many years in an isolated place — is a certain amount of privacy . |
| 12 | Nor must one forget the imperial estates , which could have accounted for as much as fifteen per cent of the 1and , ii for which there is evidence in Britain . |
| 13 | President Mauno Koivisto of Finland visited Moscow on June 24-25 for talks with Soviet politicians including President Gorbachev and Russian President-elect Boris Yeltsin ; talks centred on trade , the Soviet Union having accounted for as much as 25 per cent of Finland 's foreign exports in the 1980s but for only 12 per cent in 1990 and an expected 5 per cent in 1991 . |
| 14 | My wishes seem to have counted for very little with you so far . |
| 15 | Almost the biggest shock of the many I had sustained on my return home was the loss of the social cachet I had enjoyed for so many years . |
| 16 | Everything would have combined to emphasize the fact that she was no longer part of the terrain her ancestors had occupied for so many generations . |
| 17 | This was one U Nu , but not the deeper man , who had searched for so many years for enlightenment . |
| 18 | In the end Father landed a job that was n't too bad , working as a technical engineer for Marconi 's , whose goods he had bought for so many years . |
| 19 | Being able to say these difficult , and intensely private things to her mother before the funeral was the trigger she wanted to be able to grieve genuinely and begin to feel the loss of her mother , rather than nurse the resentment she had had for so many years . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , ’ as she registered the look of shock in Lindsey 's eyes , ‘ I 've known for quite some time . |
| 21 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 22 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 23 | But she had hoped for too much , and Matthew remained unforgiving , not actively unfriendly towards her but always out of her reach . |
| 24 | It followed the track it had followed for so many years , awakened the parties to rage , apathy and contempt in precisely the usual places and ended , as it always did , in a drawn game . |
| 25 | He had worked for so many nineteenth-century showmen that he was able to outdo them all . |
| 26 | For instance , on the day we moved , while the men were still lurching around with their crates and cardboard boxes , Tod slipped out into the garden-the garden on which he had worked for so many years . |
| 27 | She could hardly bear to think the thought , but it did seem to her that anyone who had lived for so many years with her mother could be excused for a certain lack of joie de vivre . |
| 28 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
| 29 | Perhaps Madame had waited for just such a night . |
| 30 | ‘ What this interview is really all about is how many drinks I can get out of you , ’ he informs me , after I 've paid for yet another round . |