Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pron] for a " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd give anything for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | Confusion was muddling her responses , putting up barriers where she 'd give anything for a free and open path forward … |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 11 | So she 'd have it for a week . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 14 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 15 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 16 | 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 ) . ) |
| 17 | Louis would do anything for a pretty girl . ’ |
| 18 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 19 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 20 | I wonder what price the bookies would give us for a Central South treble ; that 's Oxford to win the Boat Race , Gloucester to reach the Cup Final and Swindon to beat West Brom . |
| 21 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 22 | It was , all in all , a tourist factory , at once pretentious , shabby and expensive , and boasting levels of service unique to Eastern Europe , for no one in Western Europe would tolerate them for a moment . |
| 23 | He vowed that when they returned in the summer he would take her for a holiday . |
| 24 | It may surprise readers but , since I wrote about her recently , Barbara and I have become good friends , so I rang her up to tell her that I would join her for a good gloat . |
| 25 | After supper , Louise would leave Nora to herself until the nine o'clock news and then she would join her for a nightcap . |
| 26 | Nicholas Hall describes how , for the 1930 purchases from the Hermitage , Knoedler arranged that Andrew Mellon , who provided the financial backing , would pay Knoedler 's a commission of 25% if he decided to buy the works and conversely , if Mellon did not wish to buy a particular work , Knoedler 's would sell it for a 25% profit to be paid to Mellon . |
| 27 | Simon Foreman would sell anything for a great price and not ask any questions . |
| 28 | Dutch chiaroscuro , dark and sombre , would hold him for a while yet , until he freed himself from Rembrandt , Millet , and Israëls and turned to Delacroix 's symphonies of colour . |
| 29 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , no dear , I do n't think I would mistake you for a stook of corn . |