Example sentences of "would have [verb] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as new managers go , I 'd have to go for a partnership between Mr. Robson & Mr. Hoddle . |
| 2 | We 'd have killed for an outcome like this at any time since 1975 . |
| 3 | Now he 'd have to rely for a lift on Colin who would n't be so keen on coming out of his way . |
| 4 | The counter-girl told me I 'd have to wait for the manager . |
| 5 | He 'd have gone for the Toraja " star funeral " , too , if we only knew when it was happening . |
| 6 | ‘ We could have the name on their jerseys — but we 'd have to pay for the strip ! ’ |
| 7 | If he 'd been thrown in as he was , he 'd have sunk for a bit , and then probably come up again . |
| 8 | I 'd have banked for a draw actually |
| 9 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 10 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 11 | To find its most lasting realization , Charlie 's vision would have to wait for a bank clerk who did understand metempsychosis , and who had not only a commercial education gained in an underground room at Lloyds Bank , but also a knowledge of Greek . |
| 12 | On February 27 she was told only a heart transplant would save her husband 's life and they would have to wait for a donor . |
| 13 | Sometimes he would have to wait for an hour or more before he could find someone to carry him to the Collector 's side . |
| 14 | Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide . |
| 15 | I would have thought you would have gone for a commission . |
| 16 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 17 | A harsher critic would have gone for the jugular and claimed that this was a blunt reiteration of those dormant adolescent prejudices . |
| 18 | ‘ No , thank you , ’ she replied with clipped civility , even though she would have killed for a drink of water and some aspirins . |
| 19 | Beauty is only skin deep , as they say , but I would have hoped for a lot more from a C64 . |
| 20 | Seven or eight had died in hospital , yes , and some of those would have lingered for a day or two ; fair enough or even blond genug , as the Army usually put it . |
| 21 | But for the titles of the books on the shelves , however , Harry felt it would have served for the conduct of almost any other business than that of healing troubled minds . |
| 22 | And it is to the trade union that they would have to account for the exercise of that authority . |
| 23 | ‘ I often think how poor Mr. Green would have trembled for the issue , as the passing of this beautiful Property with many hands may exceedingly disfigure a neighbourhood , which he poor man often busied his hand in beautifying . ’ |
| 24 | In other words Jordan would have to act for the Palestinians . |
| 25 | P. Ransome-Wallis remarked that one platform would have sufficed for the traffic , and indeed it was not long before Trinidad 's railways , together with those of all the smaller West Indian islands , were shut down . |
| 26 | Not too late , Chris Court said , as he would have to listen for the Division bell and might have to run for it . |
| 27 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |
| 28 | In the past the NZRFU might not have dealt with submissions from individuals ( such as Knight or even Mayhew ) but would have waited for the details to come , union-to-union , through the usual official channels . |
| 29 | To imagine an activity in isolation presumably means imagining , so to speak , the minimum bit of reality which would have to exist for the activity to go on . |
| 30 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |