Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you wanted more money , you should have gone in for doctoring , academicking , police inspectoring or company secretarying . |
| 2 | Oxford should have gone in for their half-time cuppa. 1-0 up . |
| 3 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 4 | Although the result was generally welcomed as a great triumph for the men , some ETS members and some political groups thought they should have held out for even more concessions . |
| 5 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
| 6 | She sat at the table and painstakingly wrote down the sums of money that should have come in for the work already done . |
| 7 | So they all must have gone out for the dinner . |
| 8 | By this one Tutilo must have set out for Longner , and by this one he had returned , only to happen upon this grievous discovery along the way . |
| 9 | I was expecting you , of course , but I must have dropped off for a few minutes . ’ |
| 10 | No one heard him come up but he must have got in for Ruthven to die and the white rose to be found . ’ |
| 11 | Everything else you 'll have to fix up for yourself . |
| 12 | Because when you do run across the road , you get to the other side , and you 're thinking , good gracious , that was a close shave , I 'll have to sit down for a minute , I think I 'll have a cup of coffee or something . |
| 13 | You only have to sit in there and you hear the rumours and the gossip that 's going around and the thing is , in the staffroom it 's always the bad kids that are talked about , never the good ones , which I suppose makes sense in a way , but as a new teacher , you come in , you hear these rumours like , I used to hear rumours about Kevin ( an Afro-Caribbean pupil ) and I thought , ‘ Oh , God , I 'll have to watch out for Kevin , everybody thinks he 's a trouble-maker and that means he 's bound to be in my class ’ , but I mean it 's not as simple as that , it really is n't … |
| 14 | Of course , we 'll have to watch out for les flics . " |
| 15 | I 'd say we 'll have to do more than that , I 'd say we 'll have to go down for a week . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , you 'll have to find out for yourselves , then . ’ |
| 17 | You 'll have to stand up for yourself . ’ |
| 18 | He 'll be busy , and I 'll have to walk around for a whole hour on my own . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'll have to come back for it then , ’ he said , laughing . |
| 20 | I 'll have booked in for a course in Bristol starting in September — an art course , no one cares what art students look like — or drama maybe . |
| 21 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |
| 22 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |
| 23 | None of these was Marine Projects standard , and he could n't help wondering what kind of water sports the original owner might have gone in for . |
| 24 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 25 | What the author of this novel might have succeeded in for himself , will be repeated … in the reader-accomplice . |
| 26 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 27 | At 133 for 2 , England might have fought back for an honourable draw ; or they might not . |
| 28 | So as a result papers would fly round of , I 'm afraid , rather a shallow kind — a last minute dash by some bright brain on a subject which very able people in departments and outside advisers might have worked on for months and months and months . |
| 29 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 30 | She could have gone on for hours . |