Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | There was one about a fortnight ago , and would have given my ears for the sort of civilian committee , and the methods that they 're using here , compared with the ones I saw in London . |
2 | should now have received their list for the next two months . |
3 | The view from the Quai bridge will have whetted your appetite for a trip on the lake , and a visit to Zurich is not complete without at least one water-borne day out . |
4 | The development programme for the aircraft will provide the broad range of capabilities which was asked for by all four nations originally and er the fact that one or more nations may have deleted its requirement for a particular facility does n't remove the need for us to complete the development work er because we still have at least one or two customers for that facility . |
5 | Nothing that preceded it could have prepared its audience for a work of such comic brilliance , masterly characterization , and sheer breadth of conception . |
6 | Swindle was too crude , for if the plan worked , no one would lose a penny ; all that would have happened was that a few banks would inadvertently have lent them money for an undefined period . |
7 | Timothy was agonising over her , when Honor West would have sold her soul for a single kiss from him . |
8 | When was the last time you would have sold your soul for a stick of celery ? |
9 | I could have got you tickets for the Grand Prix . ’ |
10 | Mr Alan Milburn , Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for Darlington , was pleased the appeal had failed but suspected Bioplan might have abandoned its plans for the town anyway due to financial problems . |
11 | If he 'd told your mum he was fat and 48 with a failed marriage behind him , she might have binned his request for a meeting . |
12 | But he doubted if he could have stood her voice for a full evening ; it grated on him when she chatted him up over the counter . |
13 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
14 | Some players , such as midfielder Stefan Effenberg , may have burned their boats for a while . |
15 | At the same time , however , discussion tended to be dominated by certain sets of people ; by academics , by Americans , by mathematicians and scientists , by people with little experience of younger children or of the teachers who normally guide them , by scholars whose passionate concern for their own disciplines and the elegance of thought within them may have outweighed their concern for the school curriculum and the balanced development of school children . |