Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Charles will still sit on the throne and Diana , with whom he will not have lived for years , will be crowned beside him . |
2 | This would not have served for vaults , and the stamped lead plate remained the more usual item in such instances . |
3 | ‘ You would not have asked for Lina unless you liked the old lady . ’ |
4 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
5 | Housing benefit was never payable in addition to income support , but was used in place of it by people who would not have qualified for income support , such as people living in a room run by a close relative , the long-term disabled and various other categories of people under pensionable age who were not eligible . |
6 | The intention had been to give the premiere of Sea Change at Sadler 's Wells to open the Theatre Ballet 's new season there , but it was thought that by then John would already have left for New York to take part in the Sadler 's Wells Ballet 's first American tour , so the decision was made to present the ballet first on 18 July 1949 at the Gaiety Theatre , Dublin , where the company concluded its summer tour . |
7 | It is unlikely to have been the work of Asclepiodatus , who can scarcely have worked for Chlothar before 613 , given his association with Childebert II , and is equally unlikely to have been active after that date . |
8 | Youth itself was hardly a disadvantage , in an age when people were ruling kingdoms and leading armies in their teens ; the Stewart kings themselves , all but one beginning his personal rule in his teens , two dead at thirty , and only one surviving beyond the age of forty , could hardly have waited for age and experience to bless their undertakings and achievements . |
9 | This must also have secured for Oswiu an important diplomatic contact with the Kentish court of King Eorcenberht ( 640–64 ) , son of Eadbald , and re-established the former relationship which had prevailed in the time of Eadwine and Eadbald . |
10 | Gould would also have angled for contacts who might help him with his prospective expedition . |
11 | ‘ I would rather have played for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic , ’ he said later . |
12 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
13 | Or she may simply have opted for motherhood without the father which normally completes the traditional ‘ set ’ . |
14 | Clearly neither Paul Black himself nor his committee could have read the book : otherwise they would surely have paused for thought before designing a system with such awful possibilities . |
15 | It would n't have done for Laura to have suspected it , but I was pretty worried about her . |
16 | Polybius concludes with a Homeric line which he would never have used for Rome , however suitable the adaptation might have been : " To Egypt is a long and dangerous road " ( Odys. 4.483 ) . |
17 | If people had imagined in 1933 that things would have come to such a pitch , they 'd never have voted for Hitler . |
18 | What was said by a single inhabitant of Berchtesgaden in March 1945 was a sentiment undoubtedly close to the hearts of most Germans at this time : ‘ If we 'd have imagined in 1933 how things would turn out , we 'd never have voted for Hitler . ’ |
19 | The death of a husband would almost certainly have resurrected for Jean the complicated feelings associated with her earlier bereavement . |