Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That would 've done for a start . ’ |
| 2 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 3 | ‘ And they could have arranged for a taxi . ’ |
| 4 | It might have ordered the Serbs to remove their heavy artillery , by threatening to use counter-force ; it might have arranged for the Muslims to move to a safe haven elsewhere in the country . |
| 5 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 6 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 7 | Following their defeat at the Wiltshire election of 1713 , the Whig candidates petitioned the House of Commons , complaining that the under-sheriff , in collusion with the two Tory candidates , had delayed opening the poll until the afternoon , " when many freeholders , who would have voted for the petitioners , were necessitated , by reason of the harvest , to go away without voting " , and also that he had " refused those who voted for the petitioners , and had a right ; and polled others amongst them , who had no right " . |
| 8 | Personally , I would have voted for the lads at Cain 's Brewery but Twitters may have got the jitters if the revamped Higson 's had made the headlines . |
| 9 | HARRISON Ford must have wished for a second take during a speech in London to promote his new film , The Fugitive , based on the hit 1960 television series starring David Janssen . |
| 10 | ‘ For my part I do not think that the House of Lords in that case had in mind the special position in the administration of justice of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Crown Prosecution Service or would have been prepared to extend the effect of the orders of a civil court in such a way as indirectly to bind them in the performance of their duties in relation to the criminal law and before the criminal courts in circumstances in which they had not sought and may not have wished for an order for discovery . |
| 11 | She could have wept for the agony of raw longing that burned through her . |
| 12 | None of it would have done for the Grail Castle and the gentle remote creature to whose bed Grainne was going . |
| 13 | If he had n't met you , what would he have done for the fare ? " |
| 14 | It would n't have done for the women to be met by his men . |
| 15 | There 'll be no more lolling about on the Costa del Sol in future because too much Sol will have done for the Costa . |
| 16 | She looked on it , without telling him , as a way of exercising her voice , practising her breathing as she would have done for the stage . |
| 17 | They would never have done for the vicarage windows . ’ |
| 18 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 19 | Now why , why could n't Philip have prayed for the people ? |
| 20 | Er they may have had some inkling , but you know they might have applied for a timings , you know it suddenly comes . |
| 21 | Before LGCM took up its office in the tower of St Botolph 's , Malcolm Johnson should have applied for a faculty . |
| 22 | If they had wanted to fly supersonic jets for a living , they could have applied for the RAF 's pilot training scheme — you have a one in six chance of passing that . |
| 23 | Because it was the women themselves who were organizing it because they felt part of it they did n't see it as some sort of other people that were more politically motivated that than them giving them something to keep them out on strike , which by its very nature could could have been something that the people would have accepted for a while and then not accepted . |
| 24 | Interested in finding out what colour scheme would the RAF have used for the vehicle , ie size , position and colour of any lettering on the bodywork , size and position of roundels would also be useful to know . |
| 25 | ‘ When I was 16 I would have died for a cream cake , but how I 've brainwashed myself not to want them . ’ |
| 26 | I 'll admit I felt just like you do when I first saw Townshend doing his smashing act ; I would have died for the SG he splintered at Woodstock ! |
| 27 | Don Mosey , then with The Daily Mail , summed up Yardley 's captaincy : ( He ) had been introduced to Yorkshire cricket in the mid-Thirties when the side , individually and collectively , would have died for the cause . |
| 28 | To the locals it was a wilderness they would rather have preserved for the hawks , the salmon and the mountaineers . |
| 29 | ‘ If we do n't step on it the inn will have closed for the afternoon , and we wo n't get a glass of the urine of Culex pipiens . |
| 30 | A modest journal article might have produced for the author a significant learning experience . |