Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doris cuddled me on the way to the door but she must have let go for an instant ( perhaps I goosed her too eagerly ) because I went off on a run that would have taken me all the way downtown — further , to the Village , to Martina Twain — if the dessert trolley had n't been there to check my sprint . |
| 2 | Adam would have preferred to phone for a hire car but Lewis would n't hear of it . |
| 3 | But B of course if you did badly in those elections in May the government might have done badly in May , then morale would have been rock bottom of having to go into an election , he would have had to go for an election six weeks later or they 'd run out of time , yeah . |
| 4 | X.desktop had the edge over VUE because of its availability under VMS , aside from any uncomfortable feelings DEC might have had opting for a product from one of its biggest competitors . |
| 5 | I 'm sure that if I was still living in England we would n't have got the push that we had on the last album and we would n't have got nominated for a Grammy . |
| 6 | Maggie could tell that he would have liked to stop for a chat , that he felt sorry for her left on her own , but she lacked either her grandmother 's grace or her mother 's energy , so she did not offer him tea . |