Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vecchi was certainly the key to this whole set-up , and I 'd have given plenty for half-an-hour 's peaceful talk with him . |
| 2 | Sometimes knowledge comes in a flash , sometimes one does not have to see someone for weeks at a time . |
| 3 | ‘ I should have won it for Everton . |
| 4 | If she could do that she would have done something for Felipe . |
| 5 | I would have done anything for Charlie , and was , in fact , even now sorting out twenty years ' worth of his possessions . |
| 6 | In the hushed , beaten dressing-room after the World Cup final , there was a united whisper — ‘ If only we could have done it for Goochie ’ . |
| 7 | In the hushed , beaten dressing-room after the World Cup final , there was a united whisper — ‘ If only we could have done it for Goochie ’ . |
| 8 | He must simply have said it for effect ; after all , dramatic effects were clearly his favourite way of expressing himself . |
| 9 | Your gon na have to choose something for Mrs Macdonald 's baby . |
| 10 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 11 | Nothing could have prepared us for Holmes ( named after Sherlock Holmes as his ears resembled the detectives hat ) . |
| 12 | She 'd have to organise something for lunch though , instead of making do with a sandwich . |
| 13 | Twenty years ago , with your wits about you , you might have bought it for £5 or less . |
| 14 | They may have bought it for £9,000 with full discount , if it is actually worth £30,000 it will be the latter figure that will be used to work out their roof tax ... |
| 15 | Depending on the amount , you could put it towards paying off a mortgage , extending your home , taking a special holiday , even moving house — things you may have promised yourself for years , comforts you will certainly have earned by the time you retire . |
| 16 | If I could , I 'd have watched them for hours . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd have sold him for £600,000 in the summer but there were no takers . |
| 18 | The paper quotes an irate lawyer , accustomed to representing women pursuing harassment claims and incensed over the double standard , as saying SCO could have terminated him for misconduct , employment agreement or no , and paid him nothing . |
| 19 | The money Danica gave my mother was not enough to buy one of the better sorts of bicycle , but it was no good buying a cheap one as it would have to last me for years . |
| 20 | CHELSEA legend Ron Harris last night branded Vinny Jones a coward and told him : ‘ The hard men of yesteryear would have eaten you for breakfast ! ’ |
| 21 | Even Jim could n't have fixed it for Gideon to be a military hero , or Moses a great leader , or Peter to be a rock-like dependable person , or Jeremiah a powerful preacher ; but God could and did . |
| 22 | Could n't have been for the sex if Rose is to be believed , so must have wanted you for dinner . ’ |
| 23 | On the same day , the Irish government promised a detailed study of the loophole in the extradition law , which prevented extradition for possession of , but would have allowed it for use of , a firearm . |
| 24 | Anyone seeing them together on the common outside Oswaldston would have taken them for husband and wife , though Hilary was by nearly three years the younger . |
| 25 | A stranger would have taken them for brothers . |
| 26 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 27 | The paper quotes an irate lawyer , accustomed to representing women pursuing harassment claims and incensed over the double standard , as saying Santa Cruz could have fired him for misconduct , employment agreement or no , and paid him nothing . |
| 28 | Well I would n't have chosen them for March cos I mean that 's very nice |