Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'll just have to bear it for a little while longer . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 3 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 4 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 5 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 6 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 7 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 8 | I said well if you got us a dog I 'd have to take it for a late night walk would n't I ? |