Example sentences of "[pron] had for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for years . |
| 2 | An attitude which had for generations seemed common-sense now appeared archaic , part of a vanishing world . |
| 3 | It was one of the great post-war institutions whose central purpose was political — to put an end to the frightful nationalistic quarrels which had for decades , indeed centuries , seen the people of Europe tearing each other to pieces and spreading havoc far and wide . |
| 4 | But , he said , last week the beleaguered Mr Major had found new friends in the SNP — which had for weeks been urging all-party opposition talks on the government of Scotland , but had been in secret negotiations with a Tory government . |
| 5 | Sally , her father 's wife , had advised her on more than one occasion , but Harriet had as little time for stylists as she had for clothes — and besides , she rather liked her hair just as it was . |
| 6 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 7 | Capsules that she had for years . |
| 8 | She felt better than she had for months . |
| 9 | She felt reckless and more alive than she had for months , her own desire rising as his hungry mouth fell on her breasts like a starving child , and his eager hands tore at her clothes . |
| 10 | The Trunchbull had as great a dislike for long hair on boys as she had for plaits and pigtails on girls and she was about to show it . |
| 11 | The GP who had for generations been regarded as much as a family advisor as a curer of disease , became a thing of the past . |
| 12 | Palmerston tried to ensure that attachés in the missions to the German courts should at least be able to read German script ; and in the 1840s and 1850s there were efforts to send students of oriental languages from Oxford and Cambridge to Constantinople , where they were to form a new class of oriental secretaries and replace the Greek and Levantine dragomans who had for decades acted as translators and interpreters there . |
| 13 | In many towns they had for generations lived peaceably with , and often trusted by , their Christian neighbours . |
| 14 | Problems of access and transport remained until the 1750s much as they had for centuries , the roads miry and troublesome in winter , the tidal river valleys well-nigh impassable . |
| 15 | And all the while , as it had for aeons and always would , the giant battle-monastery flew onward through the lonely void , towards nowhere at all . |
| 16 | The drought had not yet taken a stranglehold , although the landscape looked parched and drier than it had for years . |
| 17 | The recorded history of the country goes back 5000 years to the first known pharaohs ; and though for 2000 years there had been waves of invaders bringing one foreign ruler after another , for most of the peasants ( the fellahin ) life continued much as it had for centuries , regulated as much by the Nile and the miracle of its annual flood , as by successive new masters . |
| 18 | Her heart was beating wildly as it had for days whenever the telephone bell rang anywhere she happened to be . |
| 19 | Hepworth gives an account of the process of developing a script that reveals how undynamic was his approach to screenwriting , as well as how low a regard he had for writers : |
| 20 | Dad kissed me on the forehead and asked me to make another pot of tea and he sat down in his chair and smoked a quiet pipe of tobacco looking happier than he had for days . |
| 21 | And , in spite of it , he felt closer to her than he had for months . |
| 22 | He felt closer to her than he had for years , as he tried to explain . |
| 23 | When he ventured forth , he felt he remained very tentative , lagging the eight and 10-foot putts he had for birdies on the second and third greens . |