Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arts community has always gone in for manic attention-seeking , of course — the oxygen of publicity ( to borrow a phrase ) being crucial to its survival . |
| 2 | Lucker has obviously come back for me once , as there is a fresh note on the bed . |
| 3 | The conflict has already dragged on for five years ; thousands have died . |
| 4 | I hoped it was just a passing phase , sparked off by her catching me fooling around in the Plaster Room , and thanked my guardian angel for the way Old Red had just covered up for me . |
| 5 | The hardest hit Americans included Ed Ruscha , Donald Sultan and Frank Stella though Anthony Grant at Sotheby 's stresses that demand has already bounced back for top works by Julian Schnabel and others badly mauled in 1991 . |
| 6 | A disused Victorian toilet block has just gone up for sale . |
| 7 | The debate has now gone on for thirty minutes . |
| 8 | She was ready now for the sight of the chair , the pipe , the feeling that her father had only popped out for a minute and would be back before she could leave . |
| 9 | It was strange , but the thought of her sister marrying one of those terrible Feltons no longer filled her with abhorrence ; far better that than bring a child into the world that was n't wanted and whom her mother had already thrown off for adoption . |