Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] for a " in BNC.

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31 Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan .
32 or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot ,
33 ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own .
34 If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again .
35 I 'd have banked for a draw actually
36 I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time .
37 There the Millers may have lived for a short while .
38 He lived at Charing Cross in 1585 , in 1589–90 in Writtington , Essex , by 1596 he writes from ‘ my house in Hamsell Park , Sussex ’ , while early in the 1600s he may have lived for a time in Isleworth , Middlesex .
39 Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths .
40 There have been occasional remarks that some players may have dallied for a time with what are known as recreational drugs .
41 Kenneth , last seen nineteen eighty two , lived in the Sleaford area , a retired senior nursing officer at Hospital Holbeach , er m may have married for a second time , Kenneth he 's got a son Ian Mark .
42 Not that Yuri need have fretted for a moment — as the softer shape emerged , a big smile spread across his strong features .
43 ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’
44 If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings .
45 Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted .
46 I would have thought you would have gone for a commission .
47 ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins .
48 Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 .
49 Seven or eight had died in hospital , yes , and some of those would have lingered for a day or two ; fair enough or even blond genug , as the Army usually put it .
50 What I would have given for a sesame bap .
51 In other words ‘ if he thought he was nt part of the future plans Id have told him so and he would have asked for a transfer … has he ? ?
52 CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month .
53 These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety .
54 ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’
55 In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk .
56 The Abidjan protocol would have provided for a greatly expanded UN mandate .
57 The profession can not be certain how much this will save , as it depends on the amount provided for when the supply estimates were settled ; but we estimate a saving of £15 million on the assumption that the Government would have provided for a 1.5% increase .
58 ‘ I think if Kylie Minogue has been a flash in the pan she would have lasted for a couple of singles .
59 The filthy canalside lacked most of the qualities Lefevre would have chosen for a romantic interlude , but some men were not so particular .
60 Dr. Robert Upshall , who would have fought for a seat in Parliament , said party supporters would continue to hammer home the environmental message .
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