Example sentences of "have [adv] [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has since packed it for other tours . |
| 2 | Escobar announced last month that he was declaring war on the state and the government has since blamed him for a series of bomb blasts in Bogota and other cities which have killed more than 40 people . |
| 3 | He has just photographed her for the latest Dolce e Gabbana campaign in New York . |
| 4 | ‘ But how can President Aquino overhaul the leadership of the armed forces after she has already commended them for putting down the coup ? ’ asks a congressman and former military officer , Mr Bonifacio Gillego . |
| 5 | He does n't think anybody has ever asked him for forgiveness either . |
| 6 | Industrial Light is currently using an Alias system to create computer-generated dinosaurs for Steven Spielberg 's upcoming Jurassic Park film and has also used it for commercials . |
| 7 | We 've had a good festival this year with no major incidents at all , and this has really spoilt it for everybody . |
| 8 | A physicist colleague has kindly calculated them for me . |
| 9 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 10 | Instead , uncharacteristically , he went and signed up with the Maharishi , paid out £146 , and has never regretted it for a single minute , although in fairness it has to be said that his wife has . |
| 11 | I 'd rather taken it for granted that she 'd come to London with me . |
| 12 | Alison regarded me as though I were a dosser who 'd just importuned her for some spare change . |
| 13 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 14 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd known this would happen , but she 'd done nothing ; she 'd never done anything for Fand . |
| 16 | Presumably they 'd never done anyone for the job . |
| 17 | He 'd never known anyone for touching things like Lee . |
| 18 | Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University . |
| 19 | Similarly if his host says ‘ Come early ’ , having just invited him for eight o'clock , he will interpret ‘ early ’ with respect to the last-mentioned time , rather than to some previously mentioned time . |
| 20 | They were both free then , and must have still felt something for each other . |
| 21 | They 've all bought it for nothing . ’ |
| 22 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 24 | I think we 've only had one for ages and ages . |
| 25 | Geoff Butterwick , public transport manager for Suffolk County Council , said : ‘ We 've only had it for a few weeks but it 's already proving useful and I 'm sure it will make life a lot easier . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've only got her for five years , then she has to go back to the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 27 | He had not said that he believed her , had only touched her for that fleeting moment , but she knew what she had felt . |
| 28 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 29 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 30 | Mr Fractor threatened him with a sum stretching right round the classroom if he did n't stay awake and had already punished him for not finishing his work on time . |