Example sentences of "[modal v] have [be] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was short and straight , which was more than could be said for her mouth , which was curvy and rather wider than it should have been for her ashen , wedge-shaped face . |
| 2 | We did not appreciate at the time what a wrench leaving the Weir House must have been for him , nor the difficulty he had in adjusting himself to four assertive stepsons he hardly knew . |
| 3 | Intuitively she felt the depths of the anguish he 'd suffered , knew without having to be told how hard he had struggled to help his sister , understood how devastating it must have been for him to realise she 'd gone beyond his help . |
| 4 | I have no doubt that a major influence in forcing him to make what must have been for him a most distasteful and humiliating manoeuvre , was a letter sent by a number of Durham county councillors to a local newspaper in reply to an article penned by Mr Fallon in the previous week 's issue . |
| 5 | What a tragedy that must have been for them all . |
| 6 | Cecilia reflected on how massive the explosion must have been for her and that beautiful girl to have heard it up here in West Hampstead . |
| 7 | It must have been for myself as much as any other that I issued that warning : It might be all too easy to take a wrong path ! |
| 8 | How it must have been for our Stone Age grandmothers — swell , oh , oh , pop , look , a little one — oh , it 's dead — oh , I 'm dying , dying ; dead ! |
| 9 | He 'll have been for his interview and for his wages in Calper today . |
| 10 | It might have been for her , but I thought she could have shown some gratitude , considering the work her stepmother and I had gone to . |
| 11 | Nick Day , blinking blood , received a push that could have been for anybody , and went onto his knees . |
| 12 | She said how convenient it would have been for her , instead of having to wait for chaps to go out and kill rabbits and deer and all that , and for the peasants to bring in the vegetables ; she 'd much rather have been able just to nip down to the shops and buy what she needed , when she needed it . |
| 13 | ‘ The ideal thing would have been for them to keep to their offer of a two-year deal and I would have signed it before the final . |
| 14 | He might not even be there and the whole thing would have been for nothing and all he would have got out of it would have been kicks . |
| 15 | Had she been so , then last night 's work would have been for naught . |
| 16 | ‘ If we ca n't get these orders out on time , all the effort we 've put in will have been for nothing . |
| 17 | If she decides to go straight home all this will have been for nothing . ’ |
| 18 | But if no convincing reason for the station can be found , and if the project will no longer create so many jobs , then all the effort will have been for naught . |