Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And erm I got down on my hands and knees I must 've done it for an hour |
| 2 | She would have given anything for a bath , but that was impossible . |
| 3 | Right at this moment she would have given anything for a sight of Shirley and endured her fussing with pleasure . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ You must have done it for a good reason . |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | If only conventions were not so rigid she could easily have had him for a lodger . |
| 8 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 11 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 14 | A fair crowd had gathered on the Wigmore Street-Portman Square corner and at first you could have mistaken it for a queue outside a sandwich shop , or even the Post Office just a bit further down the street . |
| 15 | I think may- , you know she thought maybe she might have kept it for an occasion |
| 16 | And she was hoping that they would have sent her for an interview down there . |