Example sentences of "he would [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Dalziel found out he 'd laugh for seven days . |
| 2 | Er I 've known er one bloke he , he 'd send for a pint of Shipstons beer when it was sixpence a pint , and then he 'd send for another pint and he 'd be drunk , or , or he 'd be ready f to fight anybody that wanted to fight him . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd allow for that on a day the like of this . ’ |
| 4 | On May 17 Havel addressed a Civic Forum rally in Prague to mark the half-anniversary of the student demonstration which had begun the revolution in November 1989 ; at this occasion he said that he would vote for named Civic Forum candidates who were government ministers . |
| 5 | Aloud he said he would stay for another night and take her place on the constituency slate . |
| 6 | He also struck me as a man who gave the most mature thought before uttering even one of these rare words ; and that if you said ‘ good morning ’ to him , he would reflect for some seconds while a number of questions passed through his mind . |
| 7 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 8 | Bryan assured Sarah that if her marriage to Andrew could not be saved he would act for both of them in any settlement . |
| 9 | The joys denied him as a man he would forgo for those of a child-man . |
| 10 | Mr Ashdown dismissed suggestions that he would ask for four Cabinet posts for his party in a coalition government . |
| 11 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 12 | Mesic , who reiterated on Sept. 12 his intention to resign after the expiry on Oct. 7 of the EC moratorium , accused the army of staging what amounted to a military coup by ignoring his orders , saying that he would ask for foreign intervention and bring charges against army commanders unless the JNA halted its attacks on Croatian towns and withdrew . |
| 13 | After a visit to Somalia on Aug. 10-12 , the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews said that he would argue for increased European Community ( EC ) aid to the country . |
| 14 | There was to be a review for them , when any man who would like to go back to France would be sent back by a route through Marseilles , and he would provide for any man who wished to serve with his newly formed force , the Free French . |
| 15 | Its a pity Inverdale ca n't play footy cos he would die for that red shit , sorry I mean shirt . |
| 16 | However , 90% of funding to be distributed to authors was not fanciful , and indeed the new Registrar , Dr James Parker , was keen to establish a figure of 11% on which he would work for administrative expenses . |
| 17 | Mr Livingstone was replaced by John Prescott , the transport spokesman , who came third and said he would work for organisational and campaigning reforms in the party . |