Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precisely because Stars & Stripes can not match the speed of Kanza and America , Conner 's designers have optimised her for a narrow light air band of 5–8 knots . |
| 2 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 3 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 4 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 5 | Feminist psychologists working on androgyny have criticized themselves for ignoring the special significance of male-identified items in the BSRI ( e.g. Bem 1979a , b ) . |
| 6 | John Major has made one for citizens , British Rail has done it for their passengers , the banks have formulated one for their customers and now the JS distribution division has done it for the branches . |
| 7 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 8 | We went to him and said : ‘ We have hidden something for the Man under one of your boats . ’ |
| 9 | I have prescribed it for fevers |
| 10 | ‘ I have distanced myself for long periods , ’ he said , perhaps with a tinge of regret about teaching posts in Cumberland and Scarborough which took him away from Cleveland . |
| 11 | Premonitions have fascinated her for several years . |
| 12 | My freedom thus consists in my moving about within the narrow frame that I have assigned myself for each one of my undertakings . |
| 13 | Williams Hill report a ‘ rush of bets ’ at odds of 811 for Lewis to become undisputed champion next year , but have received none for Bruno to do likewise . |
| 14 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
| 15 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 16 | ‘ Solving problems , however was not Highlander 's purpose , its purpose to ‘ help people learn to solve their problems in their own way , ’ and in its life since then Highlander has always worked with the under-privileged , exploited , relatively powerless communities which have approached it for assistance . |
| 17 | Now that MPs have committed him for trial for allegedly ordering telephone-tapping and accepting bribes , he describes the three months of coalition government as ‘ a lamentable political parenthesis ’ . |
| 18 | Chastened , you pick up the bicycle and shuffle indoors , convinced you have ruined everything for good . |
| 19 | In this respect , the French government is right to have made the Minister of Culture also Minister of Education ( although whether they have done it for the right reasons , and with the right man is another matter ) . |
| 20 | I have done it for years . |
| 21 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 22 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 23 | There are , of course , civil and legal reasons for this , but it also serves the purpose of confirming to the person that their relative has actually died because they have seen it for themselves , the proof is before them . |
| 24 | The forts and barracks have gone up , an iron chain along the Great Glen , an iron ring round the coasts — you have built it for them , you have clamped these fetters on your own wrists , and I do not excuse myself — my first work was mending the roof of the arsenal at Fort Augustus in 1784 . |
| 25 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 26 | ‘ I have sought you for many a long day , ’ said Caspar , cheerfully , pursuing the rather frail ploy he had thought up earlier in case of precisely this eventuality . |
| 27 | His passionate compression , luxuriant sound , and eclectic mixture of Anglo-Saxon , Latinate , and Celtic diction have made him for many readers both the greatest of Victorians and the first of the moderns . |
| 28 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 29 | Well yes since leaving college yes it 's been predominantly figurative and I always take my subject matter from things that I 've seen which have interested me for one reason or another . |
| 30 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |