Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] for the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
4 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
5 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
6 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
9 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
10 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
11 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
12 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
13 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
14 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
15 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
16 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
17 | ( Some would have already recovered the development value of the land by selling at a high price ; others may never have wished to develop their land , and , indeed , might even have bought it for the express purpose of preventing its development . ) |
18 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
19 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
20 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
21 | ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA . |
22 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
23 | ‘ I should n't have asked you for the extra two-fifty mils . ’ |
24 | " And could you have borrowed one for the night ? " |
25 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
26 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
27 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |