Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , in the report of ‘ a sex beast nicknamed ‘ The Acne Kid ’ ’ ( Star ) , who boasted to the victim that he had just been freed from prison and said : ‘ I 've served time for rape before ’ , speculation about this possible link was scotched quickly . |
| 2 | I have forgone character for comfort , and I do n't regret it . |
| 3 | I have to pick tea for money to buy food . |
| 4 | Only a short time before she 'd had Penry for company while she knitted . |
| 5 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |
| 6 | She had limited capacity for invention , and her fairy stories are low on enchantment , but she had unusual talent for entering into a child 's feelings . |
| 7 | She had sold pride for pleasure . |
| 8 | Once you have assumed responsibility for error handling using the ON ERROR statement , you can use this function to discover which error occurred . |
| 9 | You have got time for tea |
| 10 | We 've got in the new format sixty of the new new format but what we have been able to do is take elements of the new re-fitted stores and put those for instance erm Pronto we 've managed to take those and re-fit them separately but the actual new concept stores sits at about sixty-odd stores and currently what we 're doing is to check the that we have had a a re-fits this year erm where we 've taken space for other sub-lets where put the new concept back to but as far as the go in majority of the chain now we have most of the major elements i.e an upholstery area bed area Pronto representation and indeed the re-fit that was discussed in the Chairman 's statement the kitchen and bedroom re-fit erm was applicable to all stores so all of the stores have got new kitchens and bedrooms in |
| 11 | We 've got company for Christmas , are you on your own this year ? |
| 12 | We 've got demand for Home Care coming out of our ears . |
| 13 | We have increased funding for Victim Support . |
| 14 | In conclusion , we have shown evidence for regulation of methanogenesis by dietary sulphate if sulphate reducing bacteria are present in the colon . |
| 15 | Neil adds that they 've collected money for charity up and down the mountains and its restored his faith in human nature |
| 16 | They have cleared land for vegetable patches and introduced exotic weeds , and , that bane of island wildlife , goats . |
| 17 | All the same , they have to represent value for money , and while they might not score too highly under professional or even semi-professional scrutiny , they are certainly worth their asking price . |
| 18 | But like all armoured animals they have sacrificed flexibility for security and must now be content with a stiffly jointed existence . |
| 19 | But he believes that ‘ the report clearly indicates that , as far as taxpayers are concerned — and given the difficulties of operating in one of the most hostile parts of the planet — they have had value for money ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Normally clients wo n't get the feeling they have had value for money unless they have had a disaster and the lawyer has got them out of it , ’ said , one of the senior partners in Biggart Baillie Gifford 's company and commercial department . |
| 21 | Bob Wilson was so confident that the deal would go through that some weeks before it was even completed he had given authorisation for work to begin at the Boeing factory in Seattle to modify the aircraft to British CAA regulations and finish it in the red and grey Virgin livery . |
| 22 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 23 | She did not see that if he had had rabbit for dinner it would be a case of ‘ Poor Flopsy Bunnies ’ ’ ( White , 1954 , p.35 ) . |
| 24 | If it 's got room for expansion which I 'm hoping then , I would say yeah because dad 's got a good reputation . |