Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] for [det] time " in BNC.
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1 | She had lived there for some time although it is not known where she lived before coming to Darlington . |
2 | There were signs that Sir Charles had stood there for some time . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Near the Salt Tower he found the gravel-strewn slush had been disturbed , indicating someone had stood there for some time . |
5 | 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 . ’ |
6 | 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 . |
7 | If you have struggled alone for some time you may be pleasantly surprised at what is now available to you . |
8 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |