Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] for [art] [noun] " 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 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 7 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 8 | If you suggest that he has done anything for a base motive such as money , he replies , ‘ That does not do justice to you , or to me . ’ |
| 9 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 10 | Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes . |
| 11 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 15 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 16 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 17 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 19 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 20 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 21 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 22 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 23 | Instinctively , I dipped my fingers in the holy water and crossed myself , remembering the Catholic aunt in South Armagh who 'd raised me for a while as a child and had anguished over my black little Protestant soul . |
| 24 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 25 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 26 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 29 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 30 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |