Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | Janine nodded and left the flat , feeling lighter hearted than she had for many days . |
| 9 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But she had for several years been living a life which the word frugal does not even begin to describe accurately . |
| 12 | All the family thought that in spite of Maureen 's arduous lifestyle , she looked better and happier than she had for several years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | Even that did n't alter the respect they had for each other . |
| 16 | They had for many years been estranged from each other . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | How little reason they had for this view we shall soon discover . |
| 19 | The Galactic War continued , as it had for many generations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | To such an end it had for some time been seeking to intensify contacts with both Tehran and Baghdad . |
| 22 | He had for some time , in the instinctive darkness of his mind in which so many heterogeneous problems were circulating , been wondering how , in what undramatic , as it were casual , not yet significant context he might utter them . |
| 23 | R. A. Butler , one of the Conservative Party 's chief spokesmen on foreign affairs , stated in the House of Commons on 27 February 1947 that he had for some time regarded Korea ‘ as perhaps the greatest danger spot for peace in the Far East ’ . |