Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] had for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were industries in which managers had for years sub-contracted certain management tasks to labour — for example the gang-work systems in steel , dockyards and shipbuilding — and similar practices operated in such industries as motorcar and aircraft production . |
| 2 | In that case the appellant rendering company and their predecessors had for many years carried on various offensive trades , namely blood boiling , bone boiling , fat extracting , fat melting , tallow melting and tripe boiling , without concealment , to the knowledge of the local authority and under the control of their inspectors . |
| 3 | Ludens made two journeys back to the house to bring remaining luggage , the suitcases which Irina had for so long kept packed , ready for the moment of escape . |
| 4 | Children were less directly affected but there were considerable indirect effects , in terms of the time their mothers had for them and the effect of the grandparent on daily living . |
| 5 | He opened his eyes again and saw a vision of the land of milk and honey to which he and a small band of pioneers led by their Rabbi had for so long planned to emigrate . |
| 6 | Its clerks had for many years to work in ‘ dark , stuffy offices , with smoke-grimed ceilings and an atmosphere compounded of overnight gas-burning and the indefinable mouldiness of adjacent ’ bookrooms ’ ‘ . |
| 7 | In his first policy statement as President , Nujoma on March 21 promised to redress the distortions of the apartheid economy , and appeared to assuage fears of the white minority and potential Western aid donors by rejecting the idea of large-scale nationalization , which SWAPO had for a long time held to be a cornerstone of its Marxist ideology . |
| 8 | Many Liberals were deeply unhappy that , in the name of fighting ‘ Prussianism ’ , Britain should adopt precisely the system of compulsory military service whose absence had for so long distinguished the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ from the less fortunate citizens of continental states . |
| 9 | Late in life he married a member of the Wilkinson family ( whose firm had for many years been solicitors to the College ) . |
| 10 | The finest of them all was probably Roger Payne ( 1739–97 ) , paradoxically an uneducated , hard-drinking workman , content to live in squalor , yet , over the years 1770–97 , producing for such patrons as Lord Spencer work that influenced the craft not only in England but in France , whose binding had for so long been supreme . |
| 11 | And erm , it wa , at the reception afterwards we actually paid him the fine er , a contribution to a a , a fund his church had for a painting they wanted to buy . |
| 12 | the same a as what Ann had for theirs I mean we 've had it for a year and paid all that rent . |
| 13 | I mean , look at what Hendrix had for pedals — just a Fuzz Face and a great big stack of Marshalls . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |