Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had she not met Flynn , she would merely have asked for the farms to be restored to Maran Hill ; but the news from London made her too bold . |
| 2 | ( It is presumed that either Galt or Gilkison named the River Irvine ) William had a mill and a general store built , sold off plots of land to settlers , and established a community which he named Elora after a sailing ship which his youngest brother , Captain John Gilkison of Irvine , had just had built for the trade with India . |
| 3 | An amoral man applying a fixed morality to others might not have hoped for the success Surere had had ; but now , with so much ranged against him , in a world so different from the one he had lorded it in , Huy wondered how he would get on . |
| 4 | If hypertension has been neglected in the diabetic care of the past , lipids might not have existed for the attention they have received . |
| 5 | the multiplier was reduced from 15 years to 11 years to reflect the fact that the marriage might not have lasted for the whole of the natural life of the deceased . |
| 6 | Birth parents may relinquish their child for adoption at the time of birth or at a subsequent date , possibly having cared for the child over a period of months or years . |
| 7 | Asked to predict the most likely site of synaptic plasticity , theoreticians would probably have opted for the interneurons , as these can clearly receive and modulate signals from many different inputs before dispatching them to varied outputs . |
| 8 | And we also have paid for the reconnection fee . |
| 9 | To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks , the salmon and the mountaineers . |
| 10 | Ellis believed that the women 's movement had taken a wrong turn in demanding equality with men in the public sphere and should rather have worked for the elevation of motherhood . |
| 11 | My Mother was n't insured and the funeral director 's bill of £150 was a shock ( he might as well have asked for the moon ) . |
| 12 | The same man might well have worked for the Alkmaionidai in exile . |
| 13 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 14 | Significantly , this followed the troubles in the North in the previous year , and according to one early source , the rebels then had petitioned for the earldom to be restored to the lawful heir . |
| 15 | A Notts member from 1949–50 , he set himself the task of tracing every man who either had played for the county or gone from there to play for another county : ‘ I had no particular idea of being a historian or publishing anything , and I was n't particularly worried about the Hardstaffs , the Larwoods and the other famous players . |
| 16 | Many hundreds of thousands of people from poorer regions of Europe and beyond have headed for the West to seek a better life now East-West borders are easier to cross . |
| 17 | Many hundreds of thousands of people from poorer regions of Europe and beyond have headed for the West to seek a better life now East-West borders are easier to cross . |
| 18 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 19 | Currently , over 6,000 students worldwide have registered for the Distance Learning MBA , either by dealing with Henley direct or through a Network of Associate Institutions in countries around the world . |