Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 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 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was the last place in the world she would ever have chosen for a tryst , as she would tell him when he turned up . |
| 8 | She had remained her strong English self , and in truth she did put up with a good deal for in her terms a scholar 's life must always have stood for a life of privation , which would explain the furious resolve that clenched the lines in her face . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune . |
| 11 | And we also have paid for the reconnection fee . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Jenny did not reappear and Sara began to think that she really had gone for a walk . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The same man might well have worked for the Alkmaionidai in exile . |
| 16 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 23 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 24 | 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 . |