Example sentences of "would [vb infin] for [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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1 | So thought we 'd go for a ride in the morning . |
2 | He told the Federal Assembly that the devaluation , the second in less than four months , would compensate for an excess in public spending during the past nine months equivalent to US$5,400 million . |
3 | She would look for a flat in London . |
4 | Aristotle would look for an answer in terms of purpose . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | In this form he would hover over the battlefield , dipping down to engulf enemy troopers , to consume those like fat in a furnace so that their smoke would rise up as incense into Dorn 's amber nostrils and by way of that conduit across time and space — beyond mortality itself — into the God-Emperor 's seared olfactory lobes so that the Divine Person would pause for a microsecond in his eternal scrutiny of the cosmos from his golden throne and would exclaim inwardly , ‘ What sweet fragrance is that ? |
7 | He would charge for every pew in the church except those that are placed behind pillars . |
8 | GLAFCOS Clerides , elected president of Cyprus with hardline backing , said yesterday he would ask for a postponement in UN-sponsored peace talks . |