Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also enabled moderate Republicans to avoid an open break with Bush on the issue , and saved the Democrats from a potentially damaging veto battle which they seemed one vote short of winning and which would again have highlighted for white voters the identification of Democrats with minority issues . |
| 2 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 3 | Thus , when the police officer comes to make his decision he must do so knowing of the defendant 's preference and any reason the defendant may have given for it . |
| 4 | I mentioned at the start of this address that around the fire Joseph and Mary and their children would have gathered for fun and fellowship . |
| 5 | ‘ Life Forever ’ gives birth to one of the most gorgeous , melancholy intros you 'll have heard for eons , before launching into a track that has the potential to take the pelican crossing between all manner of specialist clubs . |
| 6 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 7 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 8 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 9 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 10 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 11 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 12 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 13 | Could not he have arranged for that report to be leaked to the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , because that might have prevented the hon. Gentleman from making the foolish pledge that Labour will abolish the excellent reforms ? |
| 14 | Finding out that the goods were stolen after receipt is not handling , but if the accused then , for example , sells them , he may have arranged for their disposal for the benefit of another . |
| 15 | The solicitors had a conflict of interests , and should have arranged for him to receive independent legal advice . |
| 16 | We 've let five people go who would have joined for another two grand |
| 17 | But this man , when the moment arrived , I think it must all have evaporated for him . |
| 18 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 19 | How much would he have received for that ? |
| 20 | Anyway , she was above all the lads in our year — she liked stringing them along but she could n't have fallen for any of them . |
| 21 | I know you say she 's very nice but she ca n't be all that special or you 'd have fallen for her donkeys ' years ago . |
| 22 | ‘ If he was that smart , Viola , he would never have fallen for your little game . |
| 23 | Adam may have fallen for your charms , but I 've got a clear head and I 'm immune . ’ |
| 24 | If she had simply gone straight to France when she had received his letter she would have fallen for it even more . |
| 25 | But to pursue this matter would have delayed for some years the opening of much needed services . |
| 26 | Delaney had already got one leg over the door frame that led below , and would have stopped for no one , except that his glance took in the obvious truth . |
| 27 | Garry will have registered for you both and I 'm sure he 's eagerly awaiting your arrival . ’ |
| 28 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 29 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 30 | And he went on in English and in the manner of his ‘ Jottings ’ : ‘ How many generations ago , when she was a young girl , might she have sat for Pietro and become his Madonna della Misericordia ? |