Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] for what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must have hated him for what he did . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It is not a birth-mark and , if I had rid myself of my preconceptions , I would have recognized it for what it is , on superficial examination of the subject . ’ |
| 3 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 4 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 5 | I realized I just had to accept him for what he was , and when I learnt to do that , he did the same to me - accepted me without question , in all my imperfection , in all that made me unworthy of him . |
| 6 | They had accepted it for what it was , and never bothered to probe deeper , and she had followed suit . |
| 7 | From the start , Beth had seen him for what he really was . |
| 8 | He lived in a world of his own mythology peopled by an enemy of his own creation — the Jewish Communists with the razors — who had marked him for what he was . |
| 9 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |
| 10 | We have to recognise it for what it is ; to see it as a way of generating understanding and knowledge , yielding ideas and theories which are accepted for as long as they help our understanding of evidence , but which are constantly superseded and changed when new evidence is obtained which conflicts with them . |