Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 2 | She wondered if the others were playing a joke on her : perhaps they 'd gone out for a walk ; perhaps , at this very moment , they were laughing at the thought of her waiting for a killer who would never come . |
| 3 | Then they 'd gone in for a look . |
| 4 | Without exception they were splattered in paint as if they 'd gone in for action art . |
| 5 | They 'd laid in for a siege with dozens of eggs , cans of luncheon meat , and tea . |
| 6 | They 'd sat there for hours , until nine o'clock at least , until the small garden became shadowy in the dusk . |
| 7 | I mean they were there at lunchtime when I came home and there was nobody with them so I assumed they 'd knocked off for lunch . |
| 8 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
| 9 | So out of that stalemate negotiations have begun and they 've gone on for three years . |
| 10 | they had beautiful clothes and they 've gone on for years like that . |
| 11 | They 've gone out for a walk to have a cigar but as far we 're concerned they 're not having a cigar . |
| 12 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just that I thought you should n't be able to turn people out of places they 've lived in for years , it does n't make sense . |
| 14 | In the past they 've called publicly for notorious joy riders to be held in secure units . |
| 15 | But now EMI has been accused of exploiting its workforce — in particular , by deliberately sacking casual staff before they 've worked there for two years , thereby depriving them of statutory redundancy pay and other employment rights . |
| 16 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |
| 17 | I presume there are people with second homes who actually have money which they 've put aside for the right property . |
| 18 | All through this they 've cried out for a modern definition . |
| 19 | If they 've taken off for a fire two days or something ? |
| 20 | But there 's something else — something else they 've known about for a long time but kept to themselves . ’ |
| 21 | I mean , there 's no fun in sitting there saying ‘ we 're not going to be able to do Bloxham Primary School to replace the temporary buildings they 've had there for nineteen years ’ ; that gives nobody any joy , but in terms of priorities , it was one that was felt er did not have that prior , the same priority as some of the others . |
| 22 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 23 | For all the proof you need , look no further than this year 's Reading Festival and the amazing response the Neds got for some T-shirts that they had made especially for the occasion . |
| 24 | They had gone on for a long distance , before arriving at a door in a long , anonymous wall ; the letter bearer , a gloomily serious young man with eyebrows which met across his brow , maintaining a severe silence throughout the journey . |
| 25 | General Hodge reported that the reopening of the Joint Commission was a disappointment for Rhee and the extreme right in that they had campaigned vociferously for the past year against further American-Soviet discussion . |
| 26 | They had done so for the last forty-five years . |
| 27 | They had done so for the last forty-five years |
| 28 | They had stood so for more than two hundred and forty years now , victims of the great Ko Ming purges of the 1960s , their ruin becoming , with time , a natural thing — part of the bleak and melancholy landscape that surrounded them . |
| 29 | They had stood there for thousands of years . |
| 30 | They had queued up for it , even if the committee people had worried about it . |