Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] 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 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 6 | I have prescribed it for fevers |
| 7 | Premonitions have fascinated her for several years . |
| 8 | ‘ I have forgiven you for the same ! ’ |
| 9 | I can not believe so many people have attacked her for petty reasons , like here lack of smiling . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | I have done it for years . |
| 14 | I am really sad that nobody wants to do it like I have done it for them . |
| 15 | He says I have done it for twenty eight years and it has n't had any effect . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Many footballers have matched him for decadence but few have lived out their decline quite as publicly as Slim Jim . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Some towns and cities have had it for 20 years or more . |
| 23 | Persistent colds , coughs and a temperature have dogged her for the last year . |
| 24 | The Brazilians are producing lapachol for oral administration as part of a drug therapy for cancer , and the authorities have approved it for clinical trials in humans . |
| 25 | Some people I know have used them for departmental budgets , but quite how they do that I do n't know . |
| 26 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
| 27 | I have used it for children 's jacquard sweaters but if you want to do this then knit the welt from * to * finishing at the left of the bed . |
| 28 | With film this gap is micro seconds though cine photographers have used it for years , flashing whole rolls of film . |
| 29 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 30 | We have used it for scouting exercises . ’ |