Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I had a kid , I 'd maroon it for the afternoon , on a lilo anchored several feet away with waterproof crayons and wax paper to draw on . |
| 2 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 3 | I 'd give anything for a sight of you in your pleasant civilian dress , and even the ‘ digs ’ would seem a veritable palace , compared with sand , and ragged Arabs , and khaki-drill shorts . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd give anything for a cup of tea . |
| 5 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 6 | I would leave it for a while Richard |
| 7 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , no dear , I do n't think I would mistake you for a stook of corn . |
| 9 | I would ask him on authorisation from er the Assistant Chief Constable , I would ask him for a number of officers . |
| 10 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 11 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 12 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 14 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 15 | So she 'd have it for a week . |
| 16 | Later that day , Mrs Knelle declared that she 'd take me for a drive , to see Ashford Castle , a local stately home that was now an hotel . |
| 17 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 18 | ‘ Laura must be nearing forty — her daughter , Hilda , is sixteen — but you 'd take her for no more than thirty-five . |
| 19 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 20 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
| 21 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 22 | After supper , Louise would leave Nora to herself until the nine o'clock news and then she would join her for a nightcap . |
| 23 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
| 24 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 25 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 26 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
| 27 | After they had devoured the nuts and drunk the lemonade they discussed who would write what for the Gazette . |
| 28 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
| 29 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 30 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |