Example sentences of "would [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'd knock off for a bit of dinner , come back , and do the second milking . |
| 2 | I thought I 'd wait up for the early morning newscast on the radio . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd speak out for a poor helpless old man like Donny , just as he did for Ireland . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't mind waiting , ’ she told him politely and pleasantly , though she could n't resist adding , ‘ Rosemary and I are friends ; I have n't seen her for ages , so I thought I 'd ring up for a chat . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She did n't say that , ’ he replied , the ebullience with which he 'd set out for the Greens ' household nowhere to be seen . |
| 6 | We 'd go beforehand for no charge , drop the stuff off . |
| 7 | If I met him we 'd go out for a meal . |
| 8 | I dreaded seeing him , and thought I 'd go out for the evening , but then I realized there was no point in that , it was only putting off the inevitable . |
| 9 | And I 'd go farther for a chance to have a look at people from this planet of mystery . |
| 10 | So he asked me if I 'd go in for a couple of weeks until he got something sorted out you know . |
| 11 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
| 12 | The incident must have shocked them , so logically they 'd rest up for the night . ’ |
| 13 | So all you 'd do is you 'd cast about for a friend , you 'd decide on a price that you would accept and if it was a friend , if you had to sell it and you needed fifteen quid to buy a pair of shoes or whatever , erm and you 'd like twenty , you 'd turn to a mate and go , Have you got twenty quid ? and he he 'd say yes or no . |
| 14 | She gave me the tip she 'd put aside for the waitress and then raided her purse again to replace it . |
| 15 | Oh I see they 'd put in for a new pair and sell the old pair ? |
| 16 | He 'd come across for a coffee , wish me all the best . |
| 17 | ‘ She desperately wanted to play the wife role and would spend an afternoon cooking a beautiful meal for him and he would arrive with an expensive bottle of wine and they 'd settle down for a cosy evening . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I 'd turn in for the night . ’ |
| 19 | Then if you 'd lie down for a few minutes , have a few minutes ’ sleep , you were right again . |
| 20 | Unlike his father , he would remain there for the rest of his life , without resentment , becoming in the end a partner in a somewhat unenterprising firm . |
| 21 | When the vicar got a new bishop who was Anglo-Catholic he appealed to him for his sanction , in the hope that the bishop 's approval would make up for the lack of faculty . |
| 22 | I suppose I was conceited enough to imagine that the amount of love I have for her would make up for the deprivations . |
| 23 | I then learned from the media that these payments would make up for the loss of revenue caused by people who could not or would not pay the community charge … |
| 24 | She had one advantage over him ; he had only a general idea of which shops would interest Garry and his ‘ Mrs Smith ’ , but Claudia knew Dana would make straight for the most exclusive dress shops , and luckily Claudia had a very good idea which one would be at the top of her list . |
| 25 | Sometimes she would stay away for a day or two . |
| 26 | Sometimes his eyes would glaze over for a second or two as if he were out of their world altogether . |
| 27 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 28 | I found a piece of quarter-sawn oak in my wood store , which would do perfectly for the job . |
| 29 | Only £2 million is being spent this financial year but Mr Kenneth Clarke , the Health Secretary , said the extra would do more for the quality of patient care than any other aspect of the Government 's health reforms . |
| 30 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |