Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 2 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 3 | No I think , I reckon that if you knew that the bloke was an easy pull , they would n't do it if they , if they knew they could n't get the girl cos otherwise it would be embarrassing for them , but if they knew that she was an easy pull they 'd do it for a joke . |
| 4 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 5 | I 'd give anything for a sight of you in your pleasant civilian dress , and even the ‘ digs ’ would seem a veritable palace , compared with sand , and ragged Arabs , and khaki-drill shorts . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd give anything for a cup of tea . |
| 7 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 8 | If I had a kid , I 'd maroon it for the afternoon , on a lilo anchored several feet away with waterproof crayons and wax paper to draw on . |
| 9 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |
| 10 | ‘ Laura must be nearing forty — her daughter , Hilda , is sixteen — but you 'd take her for no more than thirty-five . |
| 11 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 12 | Later that day , Mrs Knelle declared that she 'd take me for a drive , to see Ashford Castle , a local stately home that was now an hotel . |
| 13 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 14 | So she 'd have it for a week . |
| 15 | Give Ray half a chance and he 'd blame himself for the invention of gunpowder . ’ |
| 16 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 17 | They 'd hire them for a couple of months and then if they worked out they 'd keep them on , paying them a pittance , and if they did n't , they 'd say ‘ sorry ’ and the guy would go away . |
| 18 | ‘ I would n't do that , girl ; he 'd fight you for the child . |
| 19 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | He would probably do the latter , and hurry through the change of clothes which would prepare him for the half-hour 's weight-training which he did between ten forty-five and eleven fifteen every Tuesday and Friday . |
| 21 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 22 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 23 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 24 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 25 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 26 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 27 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 28 | Harold Macmillan was by no means alone at that time in looking forward to a government of Mosley and the younger men who would do something for the country at last . |
| 29 | Some German agents must have stood out like sore thumbs ( One , codenamed ‘ Garbo ’ , could never figure out English pounds , shillings , and pence , and once reported back to Berlin from Glasgow that there were men there ‘ who would do anything for a litre of wine ’ ( p. 112 ) . ) |
| 30 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |