Example sentences of "would [adv] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there are batteries for when we 're stopped , but they 'd only last for forty-five minutes , eh ? , if we were n't plugged into the ground supply at a station . |
| 2 | ‘ No matter what happened , I 'd always fall for this . ’ |
| 3 | They did try and imply that I went to the toilet for some sexual activity with the lead singer of Suede , which is a bit boring , and something that I 'd probably wish for more than think was nasty |
| 4 | I 'd certainly settle for that . |
| 5 | Clearly , the Williams-Renault was on the pace even though gearbox trouble would eventually account for both drivers , Patrese 's departure being the more dramatic of the two . |
| 6 | Would gladly exchange for two white-mice . |
| 7 | next week , it would only pay for that one wo n't he ? |
| 8 | This would only make for higher scores which ca n't be good for the game . |
| 9 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 10 | According to Letourneau , the Vietnamese looked on concessions as weakness and would only ask for more . |
| 11 | But I do see that that would perhaps to attain for young people again . |
| 12 | It would be a mistake to assume that the various strata of middle-class ‘ society ’ would naturally press for liberal reform . |
| 13 | But that would not make for easy writing , still less reading . |
| 14 | I tell you there ai n't nothing he would not do for that football club . |
| 15 | It would not do for some occupant of the house to look out of the window and actually see one walking across the lawn . |
| 16 | He wanted them to gather last Friday and be absented from their weekend round of Championship matches , but even Albert Ferrasse , the autocratic French Federation president , would not stand for that . |
| 17 | And he , Alexander Augustus Hope , Colonel , at your service , gentlemen , would not stand for another coarse word in her presence , DID THEY HEAR ? |
| 18 | Americans " would not stand for this much longer . |
| 19 | I would not suggest for one moment that they existed here . |
| 20 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 21 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 22 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 23 | The recent fundamental review of dental remuneration by Sir Kenneth Bloomfield called for ‘ a more robust approach ’ to fluoridation ‘ which would not allow for indefinite procrastination in adopting measures judged by the competent health authorities to be both beneficial and cost effective . ’ |
| 24 | He grew dirtier than ever and often would not shave for three or four days together , till his jaw looked coated or grown over with yellow fungus or sprayed like a car with glistening tangerine . |
| 25 | All the same , I would expect and ( I anticipate ) receive agreement from the Chancellor to two propositions : first , I would wish the ‘ real ’ budget to be maintained , though I would not argue for any test of ‘ reality ’ other than the rough and ready conventional scale used for measuring inflation ; and secondly , I would seek to agree a modest and gradual increase in that ‘ real ’ budget . |
| 26 | In Mexico the moon covered the Sun for 6 minutes and 54 seconds ; the next comparable solar eclipse would not occur for 140 years . |
| 27 | While I would insist on the centrality of Noel Coward 's sexuality to the patterns of meanings that I see in Brief Encounter , I would not wish for one second to hold him up as any kind of gay martyr . |
| 28 | Should disaster overtake him and the dreadful rumours become reality , she Joan , alias Anne Mowbray , would not wish for longer life … |
| 29 | De Klerk insisted that such a system would not provide for preferential treatment for any group at the expense of any other . |
| 30 | The White House said that the programme , to be announced tomorrow in a speech to a joint session of Congress , would also include a stab at controlling spiralling health care costs , but that Mr Clinton would not ask for higher contributions from beneficiaries of the Medicare programme , which provides health care for the elderly . |