Example sentences of "'ve [vb pp] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 've arranged for a whistle-stop tour around the country houses of some influential contacts , and there are one or two long-standing debts and favours due to me that I 'm going to call in over this weekend . ’ |
| 2 | erm I 've arranged for an independent assessor to view this vehicle , and the view of that independent assessor is this is a straightforward claim against the insurance company , and I at the moment am pursuing that , so it 's a little bit of a conflict of interest that one , but that does give you some background on that particular case . |
| 3 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 4 | Moat put considerable store in this scheme at Three Hills as the the next stage of our partnership er with the Council and erm we are committed to doing the scheme in accordance with your overall master plan that you 've adopted for the Three Hills area er our proposals will com complete the re-development of the vacant sites at Three Hills providing a further a hundred and nine properties for for social housing both for rent and for low cost home ownership . |
| 5 | Crawford recalled , ‘ I was thinking : ‘ This is the only work you 've done for a long time . |
| 6 | We know all the damned silly things we 've done for a thousand years , and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it , some day we 'll sop making goddamn funeral pyres and jumping into the middle of them . ’ |
| 7 | That I 've done for the first time in my life something original . |
| 8 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 9 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 10 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 11 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 12 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 13 | And more particularly in Appendix Three , you 've got for the first time , individual chief officers and general managers comments , for achieving a better equal opportunity profile in their department or unit . |
| 14 | What we 've got for the first time I suspect , since any of you joined this company and you take the experience over there as well , is that the time you spend two days together , and actually find out what it is that makes you go and I do n't suppose that happens often , , dropped you off the boat together for more than two hours at a time . |
| 15 | If that 's all you 've got for the whole battalion , that 's a success as far as the tour is concerned , ’ he said . |
| 16 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not pregnant , nor do I suffer from anorexia , ’ she added frostily , ‘ I 'm trying to shake off an illness I 've had for a few months , that 's all . ’ |
| 18 | They 've called for the gradual introduction of tax increases balanced by a reduction in interest rates . |
| 19 | why , that 's what the problem you 've spoken for a long time you just know it , but you do n't know why you use that way , you just do that way . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'll cope , I expect , I 've coped for the past year … ’ |
| 21 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 22 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 23 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 24 | Erm and how we can speak to time and how we can control that time and make sure that even with interruptions which is what in a way what a meeting is about a discussion , that we 're able to stick to the time that we 've allocated for the particular meeting or presentation that we 've got . |
| 25 | Er well Madam Deputy Speaker I think erm that the last half an hour shown that er the quality of debate in this house er remains extremely high and that even when you have an issue which on the face of it looks to be as dry as dust er that er there are some honourable members who will pick an argument er when perhaps er on the face of it there ought not to be much of an argument er I ca n't erm I ca n't say that erm I agreed with much of what erm the honourable member for Great Grimsby said er he seemed to imply er quite early on his er speech that most of the City of London er was collapsing in a sea of sleaze and er er other other goings on which are extremely er to be regretted but erm I think we ought to er remind him er that erm , you know , all all of these four orders er followed the Bingham inquiry into er what happened at B C C I which was not a British bank , was an international bank based erm overseas and I think I 'm right in saying this and I 'm sure my honourable friend the minister will confirm when he winds up er this is the first er such difficulty er that we 've experienced for a great length of time . |
| 26 | Odd really , for a couple of Manchester-based people who 've gone for a progressive soul angle and eschewed any trendy trip . |
| 27 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 28 | You 've wanted for a long time to conduct Le Sacre in the theatre ? |
| 29 | They 've they 've asked for a few changes to their older system , and this new one will give them all that they want , plus a load that they do n't want . |
| 30 | In the new South Africa , if you 've worked for a white family for more than five years , you get to keep the house … |