Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 3 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 4 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |
| 5 | But he 'd sat there listening , with that sneering smile of his , drinking Ban 's claret as if he was doing the Braithwaites a great favour , while Ben , who 'd had his share of claret too , lamented the fall of the Whig government , which might have done something for the manufacturing classes , and the election of the land-owning Tories , that bunch of country squires like the Larks , who would not . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd only have done it for the money , ’ she admits , ‘ It was a bit of a mish-mash . ’ |
| 7 | As for the Normandy campaign , I would n't have missed it for the world . |
| 8 | He would n't have missed it for the world . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I would n't have missed it for the world ’ , smiled Christy . |
| 10 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 11 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
| 12 | Back in London after that trip she said : ‘ Nothing could have prepared me for the agony of seeing countless dying children . |
| 13 | But nothing could have prepared her for the intimacy of the pictures . |
| 14 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 15 | Nothing could have prepared her for the beauty they had just shared , and she knew that for as long as she lived she would never regret giving herself to this man . |
| 16 | Their own educational socialization primarily through classics could not adequately have equipped them for the task of the " total " administration of a national culture . |
| 17 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 18 | Charles could have kicked himself for the cliché . |
| 19 | She could have kicked herself for the remark , for allowing Piers to see how much he got underneath her skin , but she could n't prevent herself . |
| 20 | Beth had a love for children , but how she wished she could have borne them for the man she loved , instead of the man she was indebted to . |
| 21 | " And could you have borrowed one for the night ? " |
| 22 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 23 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 24 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 25 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 26 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 27 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 28 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |