Example sentences of "[pron] had for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had for many years had this feeling about myself-that I looked like that — not literally , but in an inner way I felt I did . |
| 2 | I had for many months loved her from afar . |
| 3 | I thought about telling him the arrangement Laura and I had for that night , then decided against it . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the best map I had for this region was twenty-two miles to an inch . |
| 5 | ‘ I had for some time been interested in the work of the 17th century Dutch and Spanish still-life school of painting . |
| 6 | My doctor had also prepared a report for the judge , about various medical problems which I hoped might be taken into consideration , along with the fact that I had for some time been re-building my life and now had very little to do with the lifestyle that brought me into contact with drugs . |
| 7 | I had for some reason gone up to M. Dupont 's room and was about to knock , but before doing so , as is my custom , I paused for a second to listen at the door . |
| 8 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 9 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 10 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 11 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 12 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 13 | Robyn , doing her best to ignore the almost overwhelming feeling of pure dislike which she had for this man , glanced at the ornate carriage clock beside the bed , registered the time slowly and looked aghast . |
| 14 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 15 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 16 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 17 | The membership also included Derek Senior , who had for many years been advocating a fundamental reorganisation of local government . |
| 18 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 19 | Gervold , abbot of St Wandrille , who had for some time supervised the exaction of tolls at various Channel ports ( particularly Quentovic ) and established cordial relations with Offa , evidently mollified Charlemagne and a trade embargo was not maintained . |
| 20 | These breed clubs have regenerated interest in the people who had for some reason left the breed and have now been asked to return to spread their knowledge to the younger members . |
| 21 | The fate of a fallen minister or favourite might be even harder if he had aroused real fear and hatred in his opponents the executions ( or rather judicial murders ) in 1719 of Baron Goertz , the adviser of the dead Charles XII of Sweden , and in 1772 of Count Struensee , the progressive-minded but tactless favourite who had for several years dominated the court of Denmark , are good illustrations of this . |
| 22 | It was above all the place to which you were advised to go if you had for some reason been shot , in either war or peace . |
| 23 | But that has been in the past and that was a thing that we had for several years had A level plays actually on the stage am I correct ? |
| 24 | There had for some time been complaints about the secular elements in Catholic church music , the exhibitionism of organists , the use of tropes , the obscuring of the sacred texts by polyphony , and so on . |
| 25 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 26 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 27 | They had for many years been letting cottages — although many more than we — and were just starting to think of selling up and living a quieter life . |
| 28 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 29 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 30 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |