Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] for [art] [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 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 4 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 5 | TV COMIC Tony Slattery has sketched himself for a charity auction — starkers . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 11 | The signing of Byrne is exciting … he gets goals … has scored them for a list of clubs … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd heard him for a bit by then . |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Oh god I thought I 'd lost it for a minute |
| 23 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 28 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 29 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |