Example sentences of "what have [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we taken their advice the nurses would never have received what has proved for them their biggest breakthrough since the war . |
| 2 | Er what he did n't do which is which is very sensible and what has failed for other companies is that he did n't decide this is a good idea I 'll have somebody in Newcastle and somebody in Edinburgh and I 'll have somebody , in other words he gradually built the whole of the business out until he reached London by which time he he 'd a hell of exp er a lot of experience and knowledge about this thing 's going . |
| 3 | As a college lecturer , Slee comments ( 1989 p.130 ) that this is what has happened for many of the students now coming up through secondary schooling , as several of her own students can testify . |
| 4 | What has changed for the stockman is more often connected with the intensification of livestock production . |
| 5 | What had accounted for the nine-day gap between this date and the night of his eventual departure for France ? |
| 6 | He could not think what had happened for things to have become so out of hand . |
| 7 | The picture reminds me of what 's possible again , that 's all , not of what 's gone for ever . ’ |
| 8 | I think we 'd be er prepared to accept this at , what 's asked for is a feasibility study , no more than that in the first instance and I think we 'd be prepared to accept . |
| 9 | Go and see what 's left for me , I think I 'll open the mail today . |
| 10 | Erm but what 's needed for later on , might be the N and the F. |