Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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1 | As far as I know , the Canadian Rugby Union has received nothing for the development , or even the maintenance , of our cash-strapped programme . |
2 | For instance it is offering a number of parallel application development packages — Linda , Express and PVM — alongside the AIX Parallel Environment Software that the company has developed itself for the SP1 . |
3 | When that news hits him , the narrator seems to crumble , even though a premonitory dream the night before has readied him for the shock . |
4 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
5 | But he has forsaken them for the moment , at least in his current Emmerich show , ‘ Some Very Recent Paintings ’ ( opening 14 January ) . |
6 | Brody , for example , has written something for the first issue . ’ |
7 | But coming from a theatrical background has prepared her for the highs and lows of an actor 's life . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I do nt think he has done anything for the national game . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Kessler , known for his ingeniously mechanised and electrified constructions , this month ups the ante with a piece called ‘ Music Box ’ which has got something for the ears as well as for the eyes . |
12 | For this is the beach club that really has got EVERYTHING for the family . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
16 | The new Eve momentarily wants to be a tragedy queen ; for a few flickering instants , she wants to be like almost ali the characters in literature whom we find most beguiling — Cleopatra , Anna Karenin , Madame Bovary , Eve herself in Paradise Lost — a figure who has risked everything for the sake of une grande passion . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | For example , there is a right way and a wrong way of answering a stranger who has asked you for the time . |
19 | I feel so comfortable with your mother and the whole time here has changed me for the better . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Juliet wondered if he 'd re-stocked it for the occasion . |
22 | Perhaps if I 'd entered him for the Champion Hurdle , he might have sold . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
25 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
26 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
27 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
28 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
29 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
30 | 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 . |