Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Even if someone wanted to have their dog put down they could have applied for financial help . ’ |
| 32 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |
| 33 | It might have made for easier dealings with superiors and a better example for juniors , but then it was a major part of her sexual thrall over him . |
| 34 | Our quarry secured a table in the far corner and , as soon as I glimpsed him , I could have laughed for sheer joy . |
| 35 | Well then I must have cried for two hours and |
| 36 | He may have drowned for all I care . |
| 37 | I would have sighed for human nature , had it not been for the excellence of my trout and the wine which accompanied it . |
| 38 | Many would regularly ‘ pop their ticker ’ — pawn the watch they may have bought for five pounds , on which they may have raised forty pounds or more in loans , as Melanie Tebbutt showed in Making Ends Meet ( 1983 ) . |
| 39 | to forty or lower , I would have thought for this sort of plan , the majority . |
| 40 | Nevertheless , the differences in fit from what would be expected of multifactorial inheritance are small and the pattern of familial aggregation indicative of a recessive influence ( with affected sibling pairs predominating over parent-offspring pairs ) could have occurred for other reasons , as discussed below . |
| 41 | Mitchell and Green point out that these pauses could have occurred for several different reasons . |
| 42 | Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number . |
| 43 | We could have stayed for longer . |
| 44 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |
| 45 | Had he spotted it he would probably have opted for 18 ... |
| 46 | ‘ I would have settled for that before I went out . |
| 47 | However , if his quest was originally to break down the stranglehold of the rock system , would he have settled for such a four-square format ? |
| 48 | Vincent , steeped in the realism of his culture , could never have settled for external appearance only . |
| 49 | He might have settled for less , ’ Rincewind conceded . |
| 50 | An early marriage and five children would have tempered most women 's ambitions and had Emecheta 's marriage been happy , she might have settled for domestic life . |
| 51 | They must have longed for quiet and solitude , for space to shed their tears in private , or even to vent their anger , but none of them showed it in public . |
| 52 | The TAC system should have provided for this , but the latest estimates of existing stocks were only 78,000 tonnes of cod and 81,000 tonnes of haddock , Holden 's report claimed . |
| 53 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 54 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 55 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 56 | Had he come up on the bus with us from Bishop Auckland to Willington , we 'd probably have asked for one and a half . |
| 57 | IF ENGLAND had wanted a tough competitive fixture to complete their domestic programme before the Students World Cup in Italy in July 1 , they could not have asked for better preparation that at Blundellsands yesterday . |
| 58 | He may have asked for Norman help against his enemies in 1009 , and a continental source records that he at some point appealed to the French monarch Robert the Pious for assistance , conceivably in the hope that he could exert pressure on the Normans . |
| 59 | He should never have asked for three assistants , he realized . |
| 60 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |