Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 2 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 3 | Even when Vinnie left — although we sold him for either what we bought him , or maybe 50 grand more , he had a very good season at Leeds , proved he could play a bit , he should have gone for more . |
| 4 | That relics of them should have survived for such a vast period of time seemed even more difficult to believe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps not the best saint the church should have chosen for such a profession . |
| 7 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 8 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 9 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 10 | Galleries had to be cleared 36 times , which must have accounted for some 35 minutes delay . |
| 11 | The fact that the US announced its continuing if not open-ended assistance for the French in Vietnam on the same day as the Schuman plan began Germany 's rehabilitation in Europe was , obviously , a coincidence in spite of any gratitude which the US might have felt for this imaginative and , at the same time , practical French gesture . |
| 12 | Mary 's authoritarian treatment of customs duties might have compensated for that decline , had not Elizabeth and Burghley allowed inflation to erode their true value . |
| 13 | Lane accepted it without comment , although at another time he might have pressed for more of an answer ; he was n't a man who liked to be kept in the dark . |
| 14 | The Liberal Democrats are the only party to offer the Bank the carrot of political independence , and might have hoped for more of an endorsement from Threadneedle Street . |
| 15 | He might have settled for less , ’ Rincewind conceded . |
| 16 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 17 | In considering the possible effects of soot on global climate , the models suggest that since the soot did not reach the stratosphere ( around 14–15 km in this region ) , where it could have remained for several years , the fires were unlikely to have caused significant global climate effects . |
| 18 | The station commander , a well-known Battle of Britain type , suggested that he had wasted more animo on the Luftwaffe that he could have kept for such an occasion as ours . |
| 19 | The yellow card for a foul on Jochim and but Laws will be relieved he certainly could have gone for that . |
| 20 | With Ms Doi 's passion for pachinko and the industry 's reputation for large-scale tax evasion — both public knowledge - who could have asked for more ? |
| 21 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 22 | No headmaster could have wished for more . |
| 23 | The range of political institutions and objectives is well discussed , although one could have wished for more emphasis to be placed on European Community matters and where they may lead us . |
| 24 | As so often in this story of my own anorexia nervosa , I find myself arriving at the same conclusion , the same central statement : it could have worked for some people , but it did n't work for me . |
| 25 | If two together had happened upon a dead man , they could have spoken for each other . ’ |
| 26 | Mitchell and Green point out that these pauses could have occurred for several different reasons . |
| 27 | On 26 May Mozart appeared at court before the King of Prussia , a keen amateur cellist , who may have asked for some quartets . |
| 28 | Last year 's postal strike supplied a further motive , as I suspect it may have done for many other recent fax converts . |
| 29 | He may have drowned for all I care . |
| 30 | Still , it seems unlikely that all eight members of the harmonie rustique would have played for this number . |