Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 2 | The best description I have heard for this position is ‘ well plugged on ’ — a plug will not go into a socket if it is crooked , that is the baby should not be twisting his or her neck . |
| 3 | As has dogged the fate of any political candidate I have favoured for any office or position , he was unsuccessful . |
| 4 | It 's the first time so many have gathered for such a prolonged period . |
| 5 | They are all welcome but my right hon. and hon. Friends — together with responsible interests outside the House , such as the British Medical Association and other medical authorities — have pressed for such a policy for some years . |
| 6 | Both the Inter-Regional Standing Committee for Art and Design Education ( IRSCADE ) and NATFHE have pressed for some form of national validation of foundation courses and the former organization , having collected views from the colleges offering the courses , has listed five future possibilities . |
| 7 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 8 | ‘ I have arranged for that . ’ |
| 9 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 10 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 11 | ‘ The constructors and team-managers have enjoyed for some years now such unrealistic power and influence , have commanded so much attention , they have begun to think of themselves and their cars as the stars . |
| 12 | For a year , birthday preparation committees throughout the nation have toiled for this moment . |
| 13 | Since the 1970s fertility rates have dropped for all women in the UK irrespective of country of origin . |
| 14 | Mr Raynor asks if this column can help in identifying the origin of this poster which his family have owned for many years — doubtless readers can help ! |
| 15 | Those dealing with heart disease have looked for such clean-cut results in vain . |
| 16 | I HAVE noticed for some time now that the Amnesty International Mandate has not been changed to include ‘ people imprisoned for their sexuality ’ . |
| 17 | For thousands of years a few men have searched for these human fruits ; they have filled their minds with the lovely ideas and have taken up their long search and watch on the lonely shore of the other world . |
| 18 | In this heart-warming play , an elderly couple spend the summer , as they have done for many years , at their lakeside home in Maine . |
| 19 | New physics and astronomy have done for all that . |
| 20 | ‘ I am sure that both Prince Charles and Princess Diana will feel a tremendous sense of sadness and of failure too , as they have done for some time . |
| 21 | I have done for some time . ’ |
| 22 | Yes my children do go to school now and have done for some months now . |
| 23 | Yes my children do go to school and have done for some months now . |
| 24 | The interest rates in this country are now down to their lowest differential with those on the continent that we have seen for many years . |
| 25 | It is recommended that we purchase from Action Computer Supplies , our usual printer supplier , who has the lowest price that I have seen for this printer at the moment . |
| 26 | Garden Life could turn out to be the most valuable contribution to conservation we have seen for some time . |
| 27 | President Michael Ainslie noted ‘ a greater level of consignment activity than we have seen for some time . |
| 28 | One of the most blatant and invidious pieces of political skulduggery we have seen for some time . |
| 29 | We have argued for many years that the present discrimination on the grounds of sex and state pensions and retirement age is unjustifiable . |
| 30 | Recently ethnolinguists , deriving their inspiration in England from the work of J. R. Firth and his disciples at SOAS ( The School of Oriental and African Studies ) , have also challenged ‘ universalism ’ and have argued for more attention to ‘ language-specific ’ descriptions before more general claims about language can be made , Fought , for instance , writing of attempts to analyse traditional Mexican languages , argues : |