Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
| 2 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 3 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 4 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 5 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 6 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 7 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
| 8 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 9 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 10 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 11 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 12 | All average rents on our stock across the whole of the south east is twenty seven pounds a week erm , I think is , is the figure now the bulk of that funded down to the old er regime that we had from the housing corporation where we got er , a lot more grant and we had the residual line and the money we 've had to borrow ourselves for the scheme was actually from the corporation themselves that all changed in the ninety eighty eight housing act and we now get a fixed er , sum of monies , it 's fixed percentage of local cost from the housing corporation and the balance has to be borrowed from a private lender just like anybody else going out and and buying a home , if you like er , from a , a bank , from a building society or somebody like that and we have to charge a rent er to the property that will repay that loan and , the way in which we actually do it is , is we charge a lower rent and actually who pays the rent quite substantially below that er , because erm the rent on these properties if we i if we charge what the the housing corporation 's grant as it 's set would be round about ten , twelve pounds more expensive than that . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 15 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 16 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 20 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 21 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 25 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I learnt this lesson the hard way : I turned up for a dinner party having remembered everything for the baby , even flowers for the hostess , and then the baby was sick all over my lovely silk skirt ! |
| 29 | " And could you have borrowed one for the night ? " |
| 30 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |