Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that .
2 Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that .
3 And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ?
4 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 . "
5 they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom
6 You know they could have shot me for that .
7 The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days .
8 But I 'll have done something for four years .
9 ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world .
10 He would n't have done it for most people .
11 Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material .
12 I would n't have seen you for another hour .
13 Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut .
14 You could have prepared me for this — ’
15 Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes .
16 Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising .
17 We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind .
18 She would have admired him for that , once .
19 He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing .
20 He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away .
21 I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window
22 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 .
23 ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on .
24 ‘ No , I was looking for you and I would n't have figured you for this particular humming and vibrant example of the capital 's nightscene . ’
25 ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem .
26 I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’
27 Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment .
28 Or we could have left you for dead .
29 As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech .
30 He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’
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