Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Aloud he said he would stay for another night and take her place on the constituency slate .
2 Mr Ashdown dismissed suggestions that he would ask for four Cabinet posts for his party in a coalition government .
3 His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle .
4 Mesic , who reiterated on Sept. 12 his intention to resign after the expiry on Oct. 7 of the EC moratorium , accused the army of staging what amounted to a military coup by ignoring his orders , saying that he would ask for foreign intervention and bring charges against army commanders unless the JNA halted its attacks on Croatian towns and withdrew .
5 There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French .
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