Example sentences of "had [vb pp] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 2 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 3 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 4 | We had looked for some impact from the presence of women in senior positions in school , but the highest percentage of women at Scale 4 or above in any school was 35 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ I think he had come for some sort of show . |
| 6 | Armed at all points against the possible disappointments of her life , conscious of the responsibilities of protecting her mother and sister , worried at the gaps in her education , anxious about nuns and antique dealers , she had forgotten for some time the necessity for personal happiness . |
| 7 | In 1959 Greece and Turkey had already drawn this conclusion , and had applied for some form of association with it . |
| 8 | Soon after their marriage , Margaret 's depression , which she had suffered for some time , immediately lifted . |
| 9 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 10 | He went home feeling better than he had done for some time but he died suddenly during sleep 3 days later , presumably from a breakthrough cardiac arrythmia . |
| 11 | Fedorov had suspected for some time , and now he knew . |
| 12 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 13 | She had thought for some time that a mouse lived there . |
| 14 | Susan 's arm was so painful next morning and looked so inflamed that Breeze , as soon as she had foraged for some breakfast , went down to the village to find the doctor . |
| 15 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
| 16 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 17 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 18 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 19 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 20 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 21 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 22 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 23 | The Hospital quickly became unable to cater for all the victims of ill health , disaster and old age , and eligibility became restricted to merchant seamen only if they had served for some period in the Royal Navy . |
| 24 | Phyllis enjoyed telling all that had happened for some days . |
| 25 | It was now criticized as anachronistic , and the German government had signalled for some time its concern over rising costs and their justifiability at a time when German unification put great strains on the public finances [ see also pp. 37212 ; 38508 ] . |
| 26 | After the struggles had continued for some minutes it became clear to his ambushers that Putt was not about to die and they dragged him away through the trees to a spot out of sight of the track , where a small fire was burning low . |
| 27 | The school , of course , had existed for some years now , ever since the Factory Act which her father could not mention without turning purple , had thought it advisable for factory children to be given some education , feeling that an hour or two a week per child , perhaps , of reading , writing and arithmetic , would not go amiss . |
| 28 | Plans for the extension of the war in Vietnam had existed for some time in the Pentagon . |
| 29 | Born at the end of the thirteenth century in the Yorkshire village of Thornton-le-dale , he had studied for some years at Oxford , sponsored by Thomas Neville , Archdeacon of Durham . |
| 30 | He had realised it before she had , and somehow the sympathy that had been briefly in those blue eyes , that she had mistaken for some sort of liking , was far more disturbing than his hard , cool look . |