Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 2 | There 's quite a lot of things happening on there , we never have it on , but I have had it on and there now , they say so and so 's got something for sale or |
| 3 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |
| 4 | Sometimes , new ideas involve such radically novel perspectives that the lack of key individuals ‘ in the chain of thought leading up to them … could easily have delayed them for … a generation ’ . |
| 5 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 6 | Milton 's Lycidas , for example , goes conventionally enough into ‘ Elegy and Epitaph ’ , but the poem 's preoccupations could easily have qualified it for ‘ Church , State , and Belief ’ . |
| 7 | How can she ever have felt anything for him as a man ? ’ |
| 8 | Benny was such a big girl , she could hardly have wanted them for herself . |
| 9 | Whatever we want from our lives now — the Booker Prize , a recording contract , a promotion , a Porsche convertible , the girl at the Virgin Megastore checkout desk — we can not possibly have coveted it for as long as we have cherished dreams of football glory , dreams which have remained fundamentally unchanged since childhood . |
| 10 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 11 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
| 12 | Yeah but er it really has knocked me for six this time . |
| 13 | I have to say that nothing in my career so far has prepared me for this kind of work . |
| 14 | My husband should really have kept him for himself , but he believed that I should try to change his luck . ’ |
| 15 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 16 | He must simply have said it for effect ; after all , dramatic effects were clearly his favourite way of expressing himself . |
| 17 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 18 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
| 19 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 20 | If you leave your gear on stage , you may find that someone else has moved it for you , and they wo n't be as careful as you . |
| 21 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 22 | She would never have forgiven herself for feeling it , nor him for becoming aware of it . |
| 23 | ‘ I would never have asked you for anything ! ’ she protested proudly . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |