Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pers pn] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once upon a time , thought Lydia , when I was in love with him , he would 've socked me for that . |
| 2 | Machinery unfit to do I 've stopped it for that . |
| 3 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 4 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 5 | they 'd have saved it for some empty classroom |
| 6 | You know they could have shot me for that . |
| 7 | The wasp will remember exactly what to do at each burrow , according to its stage in the cycle , and the number of caterpillars it already contains , even though she may not have visited it for several days . |
| 8 | ‘ She could not say nay ; and she must needs do his bidding ; and yet she would not have done it for all this world . |
| 9 | He would n't have done it for most people . |
| 10 | Each one of the TV companies would have done it for free and pooled the material . |
| 11 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 12 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 13 | You could have prepared me for this — ’ |
| 14 | Mandy had warned her that storms came up fast on the lake , but nothing could have prepared her for blue skies being annihilated by black storm-clouds in just a matter of minutes . |
| 15 | Training at commercial art school will have prepared you for much of the work you will be doing in advertising . |
| 16 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 17 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 18 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 19 | He might have had it for some long time , I do n't know , but I came across it in a drawer in the small bedroom when I was putting his clean linen away . |
| 20 | I 'd have got them for five or six quid a window |
| 21 | Why he should have dangled it for three months before an undistinguished ex-Chancellor of another party who did not even possess a seat in Parliament defies explanation . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd never have figured you for such a lady 's man , Stevens , ’ he went on . |
| 23 | ‘ No , I was looking for you and I would n't have figured you for this particular humming and vibrant example of the capital 's nightscene . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I should have asked you for more , ’ said Nubenehem . |
| 25 | I knew I should n't have taken you for that coffee . ’ |
| 26 | Fry felt that he might have left it for good after his latest week of unemployment . |
| 27 | Or we could have left you for dead . |
| 28 | As she flew up to her room , she thought her father might have killed her for that speech . |
| 29 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 30 | She could easily have slapped her for that remark , which was silly really , but nonetheless that was how she felt . |