Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now back at Jan Smuts Airport , X-Ray Foxtrot may well have flown for the second time in civvies by the time these words are read . |
| 2 | Those problems have not been solved — just as we said that they would not be — because the Government did not take the issue seriously enough and did not press as they should have pressed for the substantial reforms that were needed . |
| 3 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 4 | Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines . |
| 5 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 6 | She could have wept for the agony of raw longing that burned through her . |
| 7 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 8 | There 'll be no more lolling about on the Costa del Sol in future because too much Sol will have done for the Costa . |
| 9 | ’ It might have revived her career , as it certainly would have done for the 42-year-old Doris Day . |
| 10 | She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage . |
| 11 | If he had n't met you , what would he have done for the fare ? " |
| 12 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 13 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 14 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 15 | It would also have lengthened the plane , but the forces of the hauling system would have been correspondingly less , and an increase of speed could have compensated for the greater distance travelled . |
| 16 | After all , if you had asked him , Boy would probably have said for the first time in his life , yes , thank you I am very happy . |
| 17 | Now why , why could n't Philip have prayed for the people ? |
| 18 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 19 | Interested in finding out what colour scheme would the RAF have used for the vehicle , ie size , position and colour of any lettering on the bodywork , size and position of roundels would also be useful to know . |
| 20 | Don Mosey , then with The Daily Mail , summed up Yardley 's captaincy : ( He ) had been introduced to Yorkshire cricket in the mid-Thirties when the side , individually and collectively , would have died for the cause . |
| 21 | I 'll admit I felt just like you do when I first saw Townshend doing his smashing act ; I would have died for the SG he splintered at Woodstock ! |
| 22 | To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks , the salmon and the mountaineers . |
| 23 | ‘ If we do n't step on it the inn will have closed for the afternoon , and we wo n't get a glass of the urine of Culex pipiens . |
| 24 | A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience . |
| 25 | I was thinking of all I could have bought for the baby with fifty pounds . |
| 26 | We are never told what use Marmeladov might have had for the shawl . |
| 27 | As George Male points out : ‘ It was done to foil any over-confidence we may have had for the next game , for he knew the opposition would go all out against us after our big win . |
| 28 | And whatever attractions Church and throne may have had for the peasantry , their hold on educated society was being slowly eroded . |
| 29 | He had lost whatever little respect he might have had for the old guard of English political life . |
| 30 | So what you would have had for the whole of ninety two and the whole of ninety three will all come in , will all come in the second half of ninety three . |