Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 2 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 3 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 4 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 5 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 6 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 7 | I might have wished for a little less detachment in the Rodrigo ( the adagio in particular is rather cool ) , but the Villa-Lobos offerings suit Kraft down to the ground . |
| 8 | Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form |
| 9 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 10 | Charlie could have wished for a more cloudy night . |
| 11 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 12 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 13 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 14 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 15 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 16 | Some of the stimulus for this came from a survey of senior medical students , yet when 30 current house officers were consulted all but two said that , though they would be happy to have the opportunity to apply for both jobs at one hospital , they would not have applied for a one year block contract that restricted them to one hospital . |
| 17 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 18 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 19 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 20 | Mind you , the combination of a few too many pints before the game and only being able to see about 3/4 of the pitch would n't have made for a very comprehensive report anyway ! |
| 21 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |
| 22 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 23 | I think if you had asked Freud what 's the minimum number numerically for one of , for the Bond Freud Crowds , Freud would have thought for a bit and I think he would have said three . |
| 24 | It annoyed her intensely that she should have thought for a moment that the dreadful feeling she 'd experienced when he 'd told her he had an engagement was jealousy . |
| 25 | They looked after each other , that was all , as each of them might have cared for a pet and been solicitous for its well-being . |
| 26 | It introduces the thought that in his speech as well as in his writing , Johnson understood that the essence of art lies in the perfect marriage of form and content , therefore , Boswell may have reached for an accuracy beyond sycophancy . |
| 27 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 28 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 29 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 30 | But Allem would certainly have settled for a 69 before he went out . |