Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 Habitually a somewhat forgetful person , I had also for a couple of days been trying to remember the name of the director of the film Such Good Friends .
2 Not that I am old or likely to fall , not that I have ever for one moment been unsteady on my feet .
3 For example , in English Hop Growers Ltd v Derring [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 Scrutton LJ said " I have always for myself regarded it as in the public interest that parties who , being in an equal position of bargaining , make contracts , should be compelled to perform them , and not to escape from their liabilities by saying that they had agreed to something which was unreasonable " .
4 Burma is fortunate in that she has enough for her own needs , though she was only just able to ensure this during the last harvest .
5 Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence .
6 What basis what did you have therefore for your assessment that forty one thousand two hundred was okay ?
7 Ignoring the suddenly bright gleam in his eyes , she bent and grabbed the hem of her shift , tearing the flimsy material easily until she had enough for a bandage .
8 She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her .
9 They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him .
10 To think of it another way , if you were asked to mend a broken chair you would not use every tool you had just for the sake of showing that you had them .
11 Talk about the dreams you had together for the future .
12 After another fortnight you had enough for twelve or sixteen .
13 Er , the Police Authority last year I think actually had to have an extra nine hundred thousand pounds of spending , the budget was funded by the constituent 's authorities , erm , and we 've already for next year in fact , made available effectively six hundred thousand pounds worth of extra spending by erm , various means , so I would hope that erm , the authority does use as , as much prudence and restraint in its financial affairs as possible , because of the , the effects on all , all concerned .
14 The Lowden LSE comes in two versions , the mahogany-bodied LSE I and the rosewood-bodied LSE II , and it 's the latter model we have here for review .
15 At youth level we have also for a number of years sponsored the Scottish Schools National Swimming Championships and the Scottish Schools Badminton Union Competitions .
16 We have enough for three weeks ’ travel , ’ Bicker said .
17 Downing Street could n't turn down this gift horse for fear of offending the President but at the same time , they had nowhere for him to go so since March , Maxat , a champion racehorse , was stuck in these Turkmen stables waiting impatiently , getting flabby and fractious .
18 Suddenly she felt a glowing warmth deep inside ; he could never betray her , could never sell what they had together for the cheap thrill of recounting an old , sordid story .
19 Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar .
20 We saw things like they had yesterday for about four pounds .
21 I was going to Grant Development have come here er because they are interested in our views , er I think as far as the access goes I take your point that visibility is required , but I would imagine that that the highways department will have stipulated what is required , as they have indeed for the development next door , er where the hedge , the present hedge is going to be er set back , erm I I ca n't tell you whether , what stipulation has been made , perhaps these two gentlemen
22 long time see , see such an impression of dodgy back acting , poor old William Roche who plays Ken Barlow in Coronation Street has been moaning and groaning and wincing and rising in the most frightful and indeed the most convincing of manners , he has even for the match of the
23 This would not have had the same meaning as it has today for the term park originally meant land enclosed to keep beasts for hunting or ornamental purposes .
24 Not that he 'd ever for a moment think of … taking advantage , so to speak , of a young woman of loose morals like Mrs Heatherington-Scott . ’
25 And it was such an obvious explanation that she ought to have thought of it herself , but for some reason it had never for one moment crossed her mind .
26 He had also for some reason tried to mask part of his window .
27 He had enough for his day-to-day needs , of course , but he would be hard-pressed to see himself through another month if he was to live in the style befitting a gentleman .
28 When Zen judged that he had enough for his purposes he pointed to the Fiats .
29 We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen .
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