Example sentences of "have [vb pp] for a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 8 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 9 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 17 | ‘ Three weeks ago we would have settled for a situation like this . |
| 18 | Denied ‘ I would have settled for a point , ’ said Little . |
| 19 | Robert Dunlop said : ‘ When I came today I would have settled for a lot less . |
| 20 | However , working women generally were by no means in favour of the double burden of work at home and in the factory and Mary MacArthur may well have spoken for a majority when she said : ‘ We are all familiar with the old ideal that women 's place is in the home , and I am sufficiently old fashioned to agree that there is something to be said for it ’ . |
| 21 | Why did Osiris have Set for a brother ? |
| 22 | In other words ‘ if he thought he was nt part of the future plans Id have told him so and he would have asked for a transfer … has he ? ? |
| 23 | He could not have asked for a clearer-case of his anti-Christian enemy ‘ trampling on the moral law ’ than in Hungary . |
| 24 | If I could have asked for a gift , I suppose it would have been the ability to make a living as a musician . |
| 25 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 26 | After a lousy annual meeting and a lousy result against Crystal Palace , Alex Ferguson might reasonably have hoped for a change of fortune . |
| 27 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 28 | Seven or eight had died in hospital , yes , and some of those would have lingered for a day or two ; fair enough or even blond genug , as the Army usually put it . |
| 29 | If she 'd been at home and beset by devils like this , she would most likely have gone for a walk . |
| 30 | He should have gone for a walk on the Downs or gone shopping in the town for antiques , or spent the morning browsing in bookshops . |