Example sentences of "would [verb] [vb pp] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 2 | There were some among them would have killed me for the hell of it . |
| 3 | The river , so wide that she would have mistaken it for the sea , was full of craft of all sizes , though most of them lay at anchor . |
| 4 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |
| 5 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |
| 6 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 7 | She would have given anything for a glimpse of the moon that had been shining when she was here before , but it was not there , and as the knocking gathered strength she realised she would have to go down . |
| 8 | I would have done it for a young white guy if he was from my club and I realised that he did not have enough money to play the Tour . " |
| 9 | The playing of the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Peter Eötrös , who had given the work several times before this 1991 Prom performance , seems immensely confident and assured , all the complexities mastered ; and the recording quality is so good ( and the audience so quiet ) I would have taken it for a ‘ state-of-theart ’ studio job . |
| 10 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 11 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |