Example sentences of "would [vb infin] for [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told Isobel we 'd wait for her at the Café de la Paix … ‘ |
| 2 | They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war . |
| 3 | She did n't think he would use the ticket , any more than he would wait for her after the performance . |
| 4 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
| 5 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
| 6 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
| 7 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 8 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |