Example sentences of "[pron] would [vb infin] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd settle for that . |
| 2 | " I 'd settle for any decent , dry bank , myself " he thought , " as long as there was some grass and no men with guns . |
| 3 | I 'd pay for that . |
| 4 | and on section A every year they 've had one on competition , so I thought I 'd prepare for that , every year had one on erm money supply and every year had one on |
| 5 | But I 'd go for that if I was you . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd kill for some chocolate ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd kill for some chocolate ’ |
| 8 | I thought I 'd play for thirty minutes , 'cos any more than that is kinda boring — thirty minutes of anything is enough . |
| 9 | I 'd die for some hot chocolate . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd wait for that call . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ As a small library authority covering a very large geographical area , I would arrange for formal internal training programmes to be held for all staff ’ … |
| 12 | I would think for some of the younger ones who have n't seen or read a lot in the papers of where , what 's going on |
| 13 | The Turbo Ninety has been out since October 1986 and is available on the secondhand market , so I would go for one of those If you do buy a Turbo Landy then check its service history as neglected oil changes in early life will show up later on |
| 14 | Yes , I wo I I would , I would go for that , I 'm afraid . |
| 15 | At first I would go for short walks , lasting perhaps half an hour , and then return to bed sufficiently impressed with my own daring to be able to relax into sleep . |
| 16 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 17 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |
| 18 | I would settle for that . |
| 19 | ( In spite of the light breeze I would pay for this indulgence . |
| 20 | I would work for one of the major charities , perhaps , or maybe go for a job in publishing . |
| 21 | I expected you to come after me , I prayed you would so that I would know for sure that you really wanted me , but you did n't . |
| 22 | ‘ I would hate for any of you to go away and say the first quarter is an indication and multiply that by four , ’ Reuter quotes finance director Dudley Eustace as saying . |
| 23 | I would recommend for any talk that you give that you do n't use more than two types of visual aid . |
| 24 | Today I would die for one of Mère Poulard 's omelettes aux fines herbes . |
| 25 | Perhaps I would ask for one of those LED alarm radios , though I 'm very fond of my old brass alarm clock . |
| 26 | I would ask for some Kleenex , some razor blades and I would get to that word and I could n't do it . ’ |
| 27 | Dana was always balanced between the two , whereas I would fluctuate for long periods — a year or two in the male , a year or two in the female scale , with often sharp and distressing adjustments of behaviour and character . |
| 28 | If I had to nominate those politicians whose views I most trusted , who have most clearly articulated my own fluid , contingent thoughts on the crisis as it developed , I would opt for two pensionable septuagenarians , both of whom I despised in their political heyday : Denis Healey , who sold the Labour government to the IMF , and Ted Heath , who became the Tories ' lamest duck of all . |
| 29 | His expression left Polly in no doubt that someone would pay for that mistake when he returned to England . |
| 30 | Now , nobody would know for certain how he had died , or what had been wrong with him , her husband . |