Example sentences of "have [vb pp] here for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has lived here for eight months and knows more about the town than the Neftis , who are infuriatingly vague when it comes to giving directions . |
| 2 | Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns . |
| 3 | If he was going anywhere I thought he would have come here for Premier League football . |
| 4 | But Cadle cares for English basketball enough to have stayed here for 10 years — most of the time on a budget even Norman Lamont could manage . |
| 5 | A terrible him , perhaps , and old and wounded , like a dragon that had come here for one last final sleep . |
| 6 | Elizabeth Beesley had lived here for 37 years before Robert Maxwell made her an offer she could n't refuse . |
| 7 | I came with my thirteen-year-old son to join my husband who had lived here for many , many years . |
| 8 | It had stood here for 300 years — a revolutionary building when it was built … until it was destroyed in a fire in 1952 . |
| 9 | You would argue with me who have taught here for twenty years you , you , Gwendoline turned and fled . |
| 10 | I need stability which I do n't think we have had here for three seasons . |
| 11 | ‘ They blame us for their problems , I mean even though we have lived here for many , many generations . |
| 12 | Hodges have lived here for eight generations but Rachel Hodge is relaxed about most things her guests do — even the Czechoslovakian guests who played tennis on her court in brown walking shoes and underwear ! |
| 13 | I have lived here for twenty years . |
| 14 | You have lived here for half of your life . |
| 15 | I have lived here for 40 years and no one ever bothered anyone . |