Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] her [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found among my mother 's papers when she died a letter from my grandfather which must have wrung her heart for years after his death : ‘ … ca n't you spare a moment to write to your poor old Dad … ‘ |
| 2 | But this win was all about tactics , not times , and the way she demolished a field including two women who have beaten Liz McColgan in major championships — Elly Van Hulst ( who still holds the world record she set in taking the 1989 title ) and Lyn Jennings , the world cross-country champion for the last two years — must have whetted her appetite for Stuttgart and the ‘ real ’ world championships in August . |
| 3 | Mrs Mutziger Hentz , a graduate in counselling and psychotherapy , claims the teasing could have scarred her daughter for life . |
| 4 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
| 5 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
| 6 | Timothy was agonising over her , when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him . |