Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
| 2 | Yeah she said she has to wear them for the television |
| 3 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 4 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
| 5 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
| 6 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 7 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 8 | The ‘ fine boy ’ with the grim destiny is Thomas Fox , a boy of fifteen whose father , a small farmer , has entrusted him for the first time with a flock of sheep for Portsmouth market . |
| 9 | Years ago I used to think this was a fun sport but the reason for thinking this has escaped me for the last 2 weeks . |
| 10 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 11 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 12 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
| 13 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
| 14 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 15 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
| 16 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
| 17 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 18 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 20 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 21 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 23 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 24 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 25 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 26 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 27 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 28 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 29 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 30 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |