Example sentences of "would have [verb] it for [art] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 . "
3 Part of the LEATGS grant might for example , be delegated for schools to administer , but they would have to spend it for the specified purpose of in-service training .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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