Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.

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1 And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour
2 The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car .
3 ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA .
4 ‘ You must have done it for a good reason .
5 it finishes on the eighteen so I 'll have to book it for the previous Friday so Harry says oh that 's great it 'll be my birthday too .
6 I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion
7 In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government .
8 Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality .
9 Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll .
10 But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures .
11 Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said .
12 Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man .
13 Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes .
14 Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children .
15 Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills .
16 Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come .
17 We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received !
18 Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals .
19 ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says .
20 A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street .
21 Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to .
22 I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ?
23 If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model .
24 I said I may have to hurt him for a remark like that .
25 According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him .
26 There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it .
27 The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor .
28 It is not envisaged that we would have to use them for the offshore industry , but the provisions provide a safety net .
29 And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there .
30 I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . "
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