Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [vb infin] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd vote for the party candidate . ’ |
| 2 | He gave me £30 a week and I 'd pay for the bills , £12 rent , £5.50 for two bags of coal and the rest went on food . |
| 3 | I really could n't I would never get the price I 'd want for the alphabet . |
| 4 | ‘ If I were Jerry , ’ said Finlayson , ‘ I 'd go for the France . |
| 5 | ‘ I think I 'd go for the Loire , on the whole . |
| 6 | We arranged that I 'd go for the weekend , but I would n't leave my sister . |
| 7 | But , if a test on a chimpanzee would save my child 's life I 'm afraid I 'd go for the test on the chimpanzee . |
| 8 | If I were Souness I 'd go for the Charles Bronson option . |
| 9 | She glanced downwards , just exactly as she had on the day I 'd come for the room . |
| 10 | I thought first of all that I 'd wait for the newspaper reports of the killing and use those as an excuse . |
| 11 | Sometimes I was so affected by a particular view or landscape that I 'd wait for the athletes to run into it before taking a photo . |
| 12 | She 'd make for the kitchen , she thought , and let herself out through the back door . |
| 13 | The stitching is well finished and the Safari is a good quality shirt — but no more than you 'd expect for the price . |
| 14 | His followers sold out the Hammersmith Odeon before any major label knew who he was , and more recently , when he appeared on the black talent show The 291 Club simply to present an award , he received the kind of reception you 'd expect for the ghost of Marvin Gaye . |
| 15 | Director said , ‘ My first man into Athens , a young man but a good friend of Lawrence 's , has promised the widow that we 'd go for the jugular on this one . ’ |
| 16 | Besides , we had plans to make about how to spend the money we 'd get for the empties . |
| 17 | Mostly they 'd make for the West End and meet others like themselves ; they 'd pick up survival information , get oriented within the subculture that they 'd entered , and learn where the free food could be picked up . |
| 18 | I mean , it 's hard to think of an equivalent , but say you were an inhabitant of Hastings in the year 2066 and you went down to the beach one day and these longships were coming towards you and lots of people in chainmail and pointy helmets got out and said they 'd come for the Battle of Hastings and would you rustle up King Harold so they could shoot him in the eye and here was a huge wallet full of money for you to play your part . |
| 19 | They 'd look for the car , and when they could n't find it , they 'd probably come back . |
| 20 | Before he did something he 'd regret for the rest of his life . |
| 21 | ‘ The same , although I do n't know that he 'd care for the description . ’ |
| 22 | And as for deliberately lending himself — why , he would cheerfully hew off Owen 's head in fair fight in the field , and never lose a night 's sleep for it , though he 'd grieve for the loss of a grand fighter . |
| 23 | But he 'd try for the rest of his life to harm the boy if he could . |
| 24 | If he 'd come for the race … |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |