Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] for [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |
| 2 | The train was electrically lighted , and in order to economise current when the train had to stand by for some time , nearly every lamp was under separate control . |
| 3 | As so often on this tour , Rubin Smith and Lamb were the main architects , both playing aggressively after David Smith , flown out to replace the injured Gooch , had hung around for some time to get accustomed to the conditions only to get a bruised thumb in the process . |
| 4 | The silence had stretched out for some time . |
| 5 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 6 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 7 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
| 8 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
| 9 | He could not say when , but the horse dung and the faint indentations in the dry earth showed riders had stood there for some time . |
| 10 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
| 11 | I have to put him into kennels tomorrow as I have to go away for some time and they insist that he be fully vaccinated . ’ |
| 12 | This fascinating story is one of many such in Roger Lonsdale 's anthology of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets , not just a marvellous piece of scholarship but as richly entertaining and original a book as I have come across for some time . |
| 13 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
| 14 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |