Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first went , I thought I 'd only get them for a couple of weeks at the most . |
| 2 | A chocolate bar or an ice-cream , or sometimes he 'd just take them for a walk . |
| 3 | They 'd never take you for a terrorist . |
| 4 | I would just leave it for a while |
| 5 | And since they certainly would not pay her for the work she had already done on the trousseau , where else could she go ? |
| 6 | At this point in Louis 's reign Nithard comments : " the emperor could now feel confident that the aristocracy would not desert him for the rest of his life " . |
| 7 | The book is intended for undergraduates in their second or third year of a philosophy degree , but this need not necessarily deter readers with other backgrounds ; e.g. , my father claims to be able to understand it , though perhaps he would not thank me for the suggestion that he is representative . |
| 8 | I would not lose him for every noble we 'll get for him . |
| 9 | But it is too soon for him to face the likes of Devon Malcolm , and Fletcher said the tour selectors would not consider him for the pipe opener in Faridabad . |
| 10 | With a figure like that one would hardly take her for a chips and stodge consumer . |
| 11 | No man , however enslaved to beauty , would ever carry it for a woman . |
| 12 | If , as naïve young hunters , they attacked a brightly coloured prey , bit it and started to chew it , only to discover that it had a foul taste or a poisonous secretion , they would probably remember it for the rest of their lives . |
| 13 | At Lima bus station an unemployed mining engineer , who would later sting me for a few thousand intis , told me , ‘ This country , something really wrong with it . |
| 14 | I had very short hair , always wore jeans , sneakers and an anorak ( being perpetually cold ) , and strangers would often mistake me for a boy — my younger sisters ' younger brother . |
| 15 | Yeah , but they would n't pay me for the hour I was sitting there doing nothing you see |
| 16 | He even holds back when we hear the car pull away , and I would n't blame him for a moment . |
| 17 | ‘ You would n't want me for a cousin-in-law , by the sound of it . ’ |
| 18 | I would n't want you for an enemy , Harry . |
| 19 | I would n't hurt her for the world . ’ |
| 20 | He closed his eyes tightly ; then in a much quieter voice , he said , ‘ Pet , you know I would n't hurt you for the world , but you 're hurting me . |
| 21 | My life has changed and I live around the horses and would n't change it for the world now . |
| 22 | have ever gone into nursing now because she said I would n't do it for a grant . |
| 23 | ‘ And I 'd only go out with someone I really liked — I would n't do it for the sake of it . |
| 24 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
| 26 | I would n't miss it for the world . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't miss it for the world ! ’ she replied , smiling . |
| 28 | As for this weekend 's display , Gary would n't miss it for the world . |
| 29 | Michael says it 's ‘ very decent ’ of them ; Nick says he would n't miss it for the world . |
| 30 | I would n't press you for a decision , I promise you . |