Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have [vb pp] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 2 | She had sensed that he believed she had asked for the locket , that she was guilty of abusing his father 's generosity . |
| 3 | After the letter came she had hoped for a miracle and prayed for one , too , but Richie Daly 's visit had snuffed out that hope in one short sentence . |
| 4 | Paul and Sarah Davison retained the junior doubles title they have won for the last two years . |
| 5 | ‘ Dr Armitage , I confess I had hoped for a little more from someone who knew Dr Wetherby so well and was resident at the same convention . |
| 6 | I cried after the girl had gone and he seeing my distress and I explaining I feared your anger he put his arms around my neck and comforted me and said he was sure his real mother could not but love her sister and believe she had acted for the best . |
| 7 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 8 | Both highly desirable , the one on the left especially ; both looked as if they would n't get on their backs for anything less than Edouard de Chavigny himself ; both had the kind of accent that made his toes curl , and made him wish he 'd opted for the more costly tailor . |
| 9 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 10 | It is a very bad situation as loyalist paramilitaries feel that violence will pay , as they believe it has done for the IRA through the setting up of the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 11 | She was still in the dark coat and dress she had selected for the Jockey Club hearing and Nick was in pinstripes . |
| 12 | Penny says a close friend recently asked her to sum up what she thought she 'd done for the Princess of Wales . |
| 13 | We sang Christmas carols in the parlour , recited poems , acted out skits and handed out the Christmas presents we had brought for the people . |
| 14 | Bush droned on about good and evil , right and wrong , Hitler , Munich , appeasement , using all the same phrases that most of us thought we had heard for the last time , after the revolutions of 1989 . |
| 15 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 16 | I thought you said you 'd gone for the evening , Rosalind . ’ |
| 17 | Alexa said she had applied for a modelling but had received no reply . |
| 18 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 19 | Commander Michael Porter , Tory chairman of the council 's education committee , said he had hoped for a decision that would ‘ provide us with a way to achieve the best possible education for pupils in south Reading , allowing us to set up a super new school designed for the demands of the 21st century , and a sixth form college . ’ |
| 20 | The judge said he had asked for the case to be re-listed because he had anxiety about the sentence he imposed . |
| 21 | He said he 'd gone for a count for a job |
| 22 | He pushed the door open and wished he had asked for a candle . |
| 23 | It was the best experience I have had for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |