Example sentences of "he would [vb infin] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then he 'd sit for a while , occasionally glancing at the figure next to him , until at last he 'd lean towards the other 's ear . |
| 3 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 4 | Keegan , who guided United to the First Division in the twilight of his playing career , has put the terms he 'd want for a three-year contract to Sir John and his fellow directors . |
| 5 | Before he did something he 'd regret for the rest of his life . |
| 6 | ‘ The same , although I do n't know that he 'd care for the description . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But he 'd try for the rest of his life to harm the boy if he could . |
| 9 | He 'd play for a hour or two , then leave . |
| 10 | And you know what he 'd have for a treat ? |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | If he 'd come for the race … |
| 13 | He 'd come for an evening 's entertainment and , though the food was good , he 'd reckoned on stronger meat . |
| 14 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 15 | In a document which contained precious little about what he would do for the future of British agriculture , he had one crumb of comfort for the farmer . |
| 16 | And then he would arrange for the grave digger to dig the grave . |
| 17 | But he would vote for the official Labour candidate in a parliamentary election . |
| 18 | The right hon. and learned Member for Surrey , East said yesterday that he would vote for the Government because the Prime Minister was clearly determined to follow a path that the right hon. and learned Gentleman favoured . |
| 19 | But the clear implication yesterday that he would settle for a place on the bench this weekend should dovetail nicely with Ferguson 's thinking . |
| 20 | Perhaps he would settle for the Magic Flute ? |
| 21 | By 1415 he showed himself willing to accept a good deal less : he would settle for the legal and territorial terms agreed at Brétigny , now more than half a century earlier , and a smaller dowry . |
| 22 | Sometimes he was too sick to eat anything all day , but other days he would sleep for a while and then get up for a meal . |
| 23 | They returned to the room where she explained about Philpott 's heart attack and his subsequent convalescence at the Bellevue Hospital where he would remain for the next few days . |
| 24 | When Eliot had finished an extract , he would pause for a second or two , and then , as if to break the spell , switch his head quickly to the right . |
| 25 | She had hoped he would stay for a chat with her parents , but he was making it very obvious that that was n't part of his plan . |
| 26 | Ayrton Senna was in the lead and that 's where he would stay for the rest of the afternoon . |
| 27 | Pat was with him the day a young woman approached him exceedingly politely while he was enjoying his veal — in one of his favourite Italian restaurants , Biagis , he would go for a filleted sole — and asked for his autograph . |
| 28 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
| 29 | As they had lain together in the glorious lethargy which followed passion , Vitor had told her he would go for the petrol , but that he would go alone . |
| 30 | Her mother could look after the chickens , and he would pay for the children to go to school . |