Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Life Forever ’ gives birth to one of the most gorgeous , melancholy intros you 'll have heard for eons , before launching into a track that has the potential to take the pelican crossing between all manner of specialist clubs . |
| 2 | Cassie could have looked for hours but a slight sound from the garden jolted her back to an awareness of her present danger . |
| 3 | I think if I had had more time to myself when I first retired I would n't have made that mistake and would have looked for interests nearer home . |
| 4 | It looks like one Henry the Eighth might have discarded for reasons of vanity . |
| 5 | She too , like Mercer , must have suffered for years from his boorish behaviour in public , and she had distanced herself from it . |
| 6 | As flotation advisers suggested that as many as two million people could have applied for shares after a last-minute surge of applications , he added that the issue would be a big step towards the Government 's goal of increasing the level of share-ownership . |
| 7 | Cairns-Smith discusses , in more detail than I can accommodate here , early uses that his clay-crystal replicators might have had for proteins , sugars and , most important of all , nucleic acids like RNA . |
| 8 | Gould would also have angled for contacts who might help him with his prospective expedition . |
| 9 | In this sequence of quavers the ‘ writing factor ’ would have called for dots ! |
| 10 | She 'd hoped to be able to take him out , perhaps for a longish walk through the forest where they could hope for a glimpse of a deer , but at its heaviest the downpour would have called for wetsuits rather than waterproofs . |
| 11 | Ancient dolphins might have competed for resources with seals , giant penguins , and other sea birds . |
| 12 | They must have known for weeks . |
| 13 | He replied that there was n't , but that I should have asked for Operations when I got to Porto . |
| 14 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 15 | A report is aimed at a particular reader who is expecting and may have asked for facts , conclusions and recommendations . |
| 16 | He would have fumbled for explanations . |
| 17 | Some of the tunnels must have run for miles , winding in and out of the channels of water that threaded everywhere . |
| 18 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 19 | This would not have served for vaults , and the stamped lead plate remained the more usual item in such instances . |
| 20 | Charles will still sit on the throne and Diana , with whom he will not have lived for years , will be crowned beside him . |
| 21 | She could have lived for years . |
| 22 | He could have dived for pearls and she could have painted . |
| 23 | ‘ My father would have paid for years and years to have me become a doctor , a lawyer or an engineer . |