Example sentences of "had [verb] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Andrews cited the example of an A&E nurse who had done suturing for many years . |
| 2 | I had felt ill for several months . |
| 3 | Section 5 , enacted to deal with Fascist marches in the East End of London , had become unsatisfactory for several reasons . |
| 4 | By 1966 , it had become common for Protestant church leaders to visit the Pope and to voice ecumenical sentiments . |
| 5 | Previously most food had become unfit for human consumption after forty-eight hours : now the use of ice extended its ‘ shelf life ’ , and undoubtedly contributed to contemporary improvements in diet and food hygiene . |
| 6 | Woodcuts made on the side grain had become obsolete for scientific illustration by the middle of the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | X-rays showed there was no serious damage to the skull , but Dr Volkov had remained unconscious for some time after the door had been finally broken down . |
| 8 | We had gone prepared for any questions he might ask , together with all the official documents regarding planning permission etc. and a collection of excellent photographic evidence of how we had set up the museum regarding exhibits etc. , taken by our good friend Russell Mulford . |
| 9 | He leaned heavily upon her arm , with a shambling lameness which was only half assumed , for he had gone barefoot for three weeks before he reached the refuge from which Iago had conveyed him west to Shrewsbury . |
| 10 | Already drawn to poetic vision and utterance , Leonard discovered this world for himself , cutting the virgin edges of the books which his father had left uncut for 40-plus years . |
| 11 | One plant had to get light for eight hours per day and the other one had to get light for sixteen hours a day , so another wheel at this end did this job when this went around so many times . |
| 12 | One plant had to get light for eight hours per day and the other one had to get light for sixteen hours a day , so another wheel at this end did this job when this went around so many times . |
| 13 | Because of the time it took to travel , clothes had to stay packed for long periods , and the number of changes needed throughout the day and evening necessitated quantities of clothes which were packed in different shaped dressing cases , boot boxes , hat boxes , umbrella cases , trunks and suitcases . |
| 14 | Too run-down and curiously situated to appeal to most families , it had stood empty for several years before Frankie 's parents made it their home . |
| 15 | In 1902 , after the Hall had stood empty for some years , Lord Halifax lent it to a small community of Church of England Benedictines under Abbot Aelred Carlyle , the subject of a book Abbot Extraordinary . |
| 16 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 17 | Within a few months , seeds — which had lain dormant for many years — germinated . |
| 18 | The first intimations that the forces which had lain dormant for two centuries would soon be unleashed came in the late 1870s , when frequent minor earthquakes began to shake the areas round the Sunda Straits . |
| 19 | On June 9 Mount Pinatubo , a 1,460-metre volcano which had lain dormant for 600 years , began to erupt . |
| 20 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 21 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |