Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's not some groovy-looking person we 've picked out for the sake of it . |
| 2 | ‘ And I suppose you 've come home for a day or two 's holiday ? |
| 3 | I 've come in for the polish |
| 4 | I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill . |
| 5 | I 've settled now for a sort of uniform during the day of a skirt , silk shirt and a jacket , with a three-quarter length cashmere coat over it in winter . |
| 6 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 7 | Well , we 've done that , as we said we would and of course , in a business such as Pearson , which is a people business er , although we regularly monitor employment statistics , such as total employ total number of employees er , revenue per employee , cost per employee , profit per employee , there are times when we have to take er , difficult decisions and er , so we 've gone in for a lot of redundancy , which we 'll see in , in er during the next slide or two . |
| 8 | Anyway , I 've finished here for the present . ’ |
| 9 | I 've had first hand er experience of the States because I 've worked there for a couple of years . |
| 10 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 11 | If you 've signed up for a Barclaycard recently , or joined the AA , you will probably have been tempted by the offer of ‘ free accommodation ’ in a ‘ superb range of hotels in the UK and Ireland ’ . |
| 12 | We 've put in for the club entry and we 're just waiting to hear , you know , if we 've been lucky or not . |