Example sentences of "he would [verb] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he did something he 'd regret for the rest of his life . |
| 2 | ‘ The same , although I do n't know that he 'd care for the description . ’ |
| 3 | And as for deliberately lending himself — why , he would cheerfully hew off Owen 's head in fair fight in the field , and never lose a night 's sleep for it , though he 'd grieve for the loss of a grand fighter . |
| 4 | But he 'd try for the rest of his life to harm the boy if he could . |
| 5 | If he 'd come for the race … |
| 6 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 7 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 8 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 9 | The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East said yesterday that he would vote for the Government because the Prime Minister was clearly determined to follow a path that the right hon. and learned Gentleman favoured . |
| 10 | Ayrton Senna was in the lead and that 's where he would stay for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 11 | As they had lain together in the glorious lethargy which followed passion , Vitor had told her he would go for the petrol , but that he would go alone . |
| 12 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 13 | But now he was going into space , and when he had made his fortune he would pay for the whole of Mali to be irrigated so it was as green as France . |
| 14 | Dad thanked him and said he would return for the bed after he 'd wheeled the instrument to our house . |
| 15 | At this time Klaus announced that he would stand for the post of Czech ( rather than federal ) Prime Minister , a move described by the Independent of June 19 as the " clearest possible sign that the Czechs have finally given up on the federation which they had fought for " . |
| 16 | On the Cowgate , many residents did not venture out late at night , and he said he would fear for the safety of tourists . |
| 17 | He would pray for the Englishman 's safety . |
| 18 | Then he would search for the tunnel Mcduff had talked about . |
| 19 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 20 | During one of my trips to the USA in the 1960s , Shaheen telephoned my hotel one day to say that he had arranged for me to have lunch with Richard Nixon , who at the time had not yet declared that he would run for the presidency in the election of 1968 . |
| 21 | Of course he knew he would hang for the offence , but he also knew that humanity is not an endangered species , and reckoned therefore that twenty-seven ( did you say twenty-eight ? ) |