Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I would leave it for a while Richard |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ Well , no dear , I do n't think I would mistake you for a stook of corn . |
4 | I would ask him on authorisation from er the Assistant Chief Constable , I would ask him for a number of officers . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | If she had let this chance slip , she knew she would regret it for the rest of her life . |
11 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
12 | After supper , Louise would leave Nora to herself until the nine o'clock news and then she would join her for a nightcap . |
13 | As for killing Havvie , I did not think that she would thank me for the scandal , ’ he finished simply . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ) . ) |
16 | There they would meet some others , who would join them for the next stage . |
17 | After they had devoured the nuts and drunk the lemonade they discussed who would write what for the Gazette . |
18 | Some lay eggs among the stones , so camouflaged you would mistake them for the rocks themselves . |
19 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
20 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |
21 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
22 | Suddenly , it was the men who were reacting — usually with disgust , and they would ignore her for the rest of the journey . |
23 | They would ask me for the pass I did n't have , then they would want to know what I was doing there . |
24 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
25 | They would repay me for the dowry I wasted on you , but I have no wish to be reminded of you . |
26 | They told him to ignore it and to remain at home where they would join him for the evening . |
27 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
28 | Heseltine declares that he can not foresee the circumstances in which he would challenge her for the leadership . |
29 | He vowed that when they returned in the summer he would take her for a holiday . |
30 | It would last her for a few days . |