Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aberdeen went ahead towards the end of the first half after Duncan Shearer chased a ball to the byeline that some would have given up for dead , and made the cross from which Mixu Paatelainen bundled the ball over the line . |
| 2 | Bigsun will have come on for High Easter run |
| 3 | ‘ Unless your estimable uncle had expensive amusements , Master Hussey , you must surely have come in for this very money along with the rest . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ They may have saved up for this holiday for years . ’ |
| 5 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 6 | No one heard him come up but he must have got in for Ruthven to die and the white rose to be found . ’ |
| 7 | He says without it the war would have gone on for many more years . |
| 8 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think I would have waited around for all this if I had ? ’ |
| 10 | We could have held out for another three years and got over all the changes and benefited financially , but I do n't believe finance is the be-all and end-all of everything . |
| 11 | But I think , within the next hundred years , the rivers of blood spilt in the name of religion will have dried up for all time . |