Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 2 | However , one the " dose and move " system has operated for a few years this problem is unlikely to arise . |
| 3 | If the mechanisms which Kandel has uncovered for the short-term processes of habituation and sensitization can serve as a model for short-term memory , what have they to say about long-term memory ? |
| 4 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 5 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 6 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 7 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 8 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 9 | ‘ Donkey has waited for a few minutes . |
| 10 | By the early twentieth century this was undoubtedly less of a calculative relationship than Michael Anderson has described for the middle decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 12 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 13 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |
| 14 | There was the Trojan war , in which thousands perished over the indiscretions of Helen and Paris , who — give or take a sun-lounger — could have passed for the ancient Greeks ' answer to Fergie and John Bryan . |
| 15 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 16 | The blow would have killed him instantly — at least , he might have lived for a few minutes in a technical sense , but he would have been unconscious and effectively dead . |
| 17 | By July 30 , 12 candidates had registered for the presidential elections due to be held simultaneously with legislative elections on September 29-30 . |
| 18 | John McFall , a Labour home affairs spokesman , had pressed for the proposed penalties , a six-month jail sentence or a fine of up to £1,000 , to be increased . |
| 19 | So he found them a tiny cottage just south of Orvieto , in the grounds of the villa of some Italian friends of his who had departed for the northern mountains , a villa with a pool and a shady veranda along one side and an unspeakably romantic view down the steep hillside towards the floating cathedral . |
| 20 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 21 | Moat put considerable store in this scheme at Three Hills as the the next stage of our partnership er with the Council and erm we are committed to doing the scheme in accordance with your overall master plan that you 've adopted for the Three Hills area er our proposals will com complete the re-development of the vacant sites at Three Hills providing a further a hundred and nine properties for for social housing both for rent and for low cost home ownership . |
| 22 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 23 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 24 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 25 | There , I would dissect the brains into the same crudely defined regions we had adopted for the imprinting studies and do the biochemistry . |
| 26 | Although aware he was an android , she had thought for a few seconds before removing her clothes . |
| 27 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 28 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 29 | Joanne spoke with the same contempt Jacqui had shown for the high achievements of forensic science . |
| 30 | The Zombie ( played by a well-known Horror Film Specialist ) had walked for a thousand years in a subterranean cavern which was broken open by an earthquake in Lisbon . |