Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | First climbed in 1954 , this classic test-piece had inspired me for decades . |
| 2 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 3 | ‘ This business has knocked her for six . ’ |
| 4 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 5 | Thing is , my old man 's had them for so long that he just , he he puts them in a in a cup of this like sterile solution every night . |
| 6 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 7 | But he has not taken the word of a wiser man on trust , his private test has confirmed it for him . |
| 8 | The clever Ephron has taken him for a very long ride indeed . |
| 9 | ‘ Maverick limey has negotiated the hell-fire of the Brain and the almighty trail-boss Midwinter has summoned him for a special assignment . ’ |
| 10 | He had been paid for by his country of origin — reared and raised as capitalist underdevelopment had willed it for the labour markets of Europe . ’ |
| 11 | As the Secretary of State was never coy about telling us that he opposed the directive , will he tell us — as there is a meeting on Wednesday , I assume that he has made up his mind about whether he will agree to that part of the social charter — whether he has changed his mind or whether the Prime Minister has changed it for him ? |
| 12 | Nothing in her 11 years as a member of the world 's most famous family had prepared her for the contents of the letter inside . |
| 13 | Lovell was a Bristol poet of minor talents whose rich Quaker family had disowned him for his marriage that year to a beautiful actress called Mary Fricker , one of five sisters already well known to Southey . |
| 14 | The momentary weakness had bothered her for weeks afterwards as she worried as to whether she had lost her professionalism along with the opportunity to grill Hugo Varna over the truth about his relationship — and Paula 's — with the man who had died as he lived in a blaze of publicity . |
| 15 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 16 | They had started off friends but Joseph 's first wife had left him for Leary . |
| 17 | One bird had frustrated me for most of the trip . |
| 18 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 19 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 20 | In the 1920s , after the British literary establishment had neglected him for forty years , Machen attracted a coterie of admirers in the United States . |
| 21 | She 'd suspected it for some time , but last week had seen it for herself . |