Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh so you should 've got them for January ? |
| 2 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 3 | ‘ I should have done it for myself . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem . |
| 5 | Should have bought them for . |
| 6 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 7 | ‘ I should have won it for Everton . |
| 8 | Olazabal should have emulated him for in the afternoon he proceeded to miss a string of short putts . |
| 9 | Well you should have left them for me really . |
| 10 | Seemed to think I should have known it for myself . |
| 11 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 12 | I should have taken it for granted there was something the matter . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
| 14 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 15 | You must have mistaken me for someone else . |
| 16 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 17 | ‘ You must have hated him for what he did . ’ |
| 18 | " He must have made it for us ! " |
| 19 | She must have done something for which she was now being made to pay . |
| 20 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 21 | ‘ Masklin must have got it for her , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 22 | And a try for you today , that must have sealed it for you |
| 23 | Oh , what a fool Fernando must have thought her for finding anything suspicious in a locked door . |
| 24 | But I 'll have done something for four years . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'll have given it for someone else who needs it just as badly , ’ Belinda finished for him . |
| 26 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 27 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 28 | Bristling with moonstones , the collar was primitive and barbaric ; the mastiff of a prince of medieval Persia might have worn it for going out hawking in a miniature . |
| 29 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 30 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |