Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd wanted to really zoom around the fretboard I would 've opted for a medium/short-scale bass with really light , roundwound strings . |
| 2 | Only the day before I might have prayed for a stray round to puncture the car and my coffin and put me out of my endless misery . |
| 3 | These factors alone would have made for a rapid shift between free and unfree populations ; but in many parts of Europe the relation between them was complicated by local custom and legal variety . |
| 4 | What we do have and have had for a long time in this country is an acceptance within our law and an acceptance within our definitions of freedom that there are responsibilities with freedom and those responsibilities in this particular case , we have long accepted the argument in this country , maybe not as much as erm , well more in fact than some of our colleagues abroad and maybe they could learn from us from this , but it is not acceptable to have the freedom to be unnecessarily cruel and in fox hunting we have a sport that is unnecessarily cruel , there are ways in which you can deal with rogue foxes , there are ways in which you can actually ensure that the fox community does not destroy the whole , er farming countryside . |
| 5 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 6 | Firstly , the council could have opted for a significant increase in the er I five allocation and to go on to see to identify a site in the local plan . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd have asked for a final orgy myself , but each to his own . |
| 8 | She could not have guessed how much she would enjoy herself with a stranger , how completely this woman was in sympathy with her , could not have hoped for a new friend to come out , at this stage in her life , and give her so much pleasure . |
| 9 | They could have gone for a potential Test candidate — like Essex left-arm paceman Mark Ilott . |
| 10 | or surely we 'd have gone for a different lot , |
| 11 | Had the Conservatives won the election by a whisker , which at one time seemed likely , they would probably have plumped for a Labour Speaker ( on the grounds that it took one vote off the Opposition ) . |
| 12 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |
| 13 | I 'd have cried , I 'd have brooded for a long time . |
| 14 | He must have worked for a long time in the garage . |
| 15 | Of course , nationalism is not all simple illusion , for real material differences do exist and have existed for a long time between different countries . |
| 16 | There the Millers may have lived for a short while . |
| 17 | The filthy canalside lacked most of the qualities Lefevre would have chosen for a romantic interlude , but some men were not so particular . |
| 18 | I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment . |