Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] [pers pn] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I should have done it for myself . ’ |
| 2 | Well you should have left them for me really . |
| 3 | Seemed to think I should have known it for myself . |
| 4 | You must have mistaken me for someone else . |
| 5 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 6 | ‘ You must have hated him for what he did . ’ |
| 7 | " He must have made it for us ! " |
| 8 | ‘ Masklin must have got it for her , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 9 | And a try for you today , that must have sealed it for you |
| 10 | " If you wo n't do it yourself , I 'll have to do it for you . " |
| 11 | But we , cos I 'll have to do it for you so , something interesting for me to do . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll have given it for someone else who needs it just as badly , ’ Belinda finished for him . |
| 13 | You 'll have to buy them for your skiing trip . |
| 14 | I thought I 'd 've got them for me bleeding snap . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's your picture , Jake , ’ she used to say over the laddie 's cot , laughing like a witch ; and I could 've killed her for it . ’ |
| 16 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 17 | Nothing could have prepared him for its response . |
| 18 | I could have said it for him . |
| 19 | say if you 'd done it I could have took it for you tomorrow or the next day . |
| 20 | If you 'd come out on the gig with me you could have held it for me . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have resolved it for you , ’ he said , ‘ if only you 'd come to see me earlier . |
| 22 | ROS : No , I think you 'd have to lick it for me . |
| 23 | He 'd have done it for anyone . |
| 24 | I hope you may have found him for them . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It is not a birth-mark and , if I had rid myself of my preconceptions , I would have recognized it for what it is , on superficial examination of the subject . ’ |
| 26 | No doubt the grand-old Victorian would have reprimanded us for our thriftlessness , extravagance and improvidence . |
| 27 | That would have done it for her , the uncertainty . |
| 28 | It 's very tragic but he would have done it for anybody . |
| 29 | In order to express charity and compassion I would have to travel far , since nobody near would have thanked me for it . |
| 30 | ‘ I should n't have pulled strings — other people would have pulled them for me ! |