Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [pron] for the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 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 .
4 But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not .
5 But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes .
9 Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children .
10 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 .
11 Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come .
12 We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received !
13 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 .
14 Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché .
15 She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself .
16 ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it .
20 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 .
21 It is not envisaged that we would have to use them for the offshore industry , but the provisions provide a safety net .
22 Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training .
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