Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [pers pn] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 2 | From the architectural viewpoint the greatest importance of this site , now so excellently opened up and preserved , is that it has preserved for us a provincial Roman city at a certain point in time — A.D. 79 — so that we can see for ourselves the buildings in which such citizens of the empire lived . |
| 3 | The Bible as holy literature , the oracles of the Logos , has become for them an inanimate object of scientific investigation . |
| 4 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 5 | If you have succeeded in fully engaging the sympathies of your readers you will probably have produced for them a main character who is something more than a stereotype , who has about him or her a good deal of the complexity of real life . |
| 6 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 7 | Since childhood , since her early school days , New Year 's Eve had possessed for her a mournful terror : she had elected it to represent the Nothingness which was her own life , the solid , cheerful festival which had seemed to be the lives of others . |
| 8 | Perhaps sex had become for me a habit-forming drug . |
| 9 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |