Example sentences of "would [vb infin] [pers pn] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reckon I 'd do it for a thousand pounds . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We thought it was so good that we 'd do it for the old people 's home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Laura must be nearing forty — her daughter , Hilda , is sixteen — but you 'd take her for no more than thirty-five . |
| 7 | Later , she 'd take him for a walk , if her father did n't have time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I thought we 'd try them for a change . |
| 10 | So she 'd have it for a week . |
| 11 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 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 | ‘ I would n't do that , girl ; he 'd fight you for the child . |
| 14 | The court had been told that Mrs McWilliams had suffered severe brain damage which would affect her for the rest of her life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 19 | Others would buy it for a fancy dress party or a dare . |
| 20 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 21 | We devised a system whereby three dealers would be asked to give an independent appraisal , and we would average them for an official evaluation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In that case the Lapp had said he would do it for a few drinks if we had any with us . |
| 24 | The car would do it for a minute or two . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 27 | This was discussed at length with Janet , after which it was agreed that the therapist would see her for the next 2 months at fortnightly intervals and that no more than one telephone call per week would be acceptable . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He vowed that when they returned in the summer he would take her for a holiday . |
| 30 | ‘ To look at me , no one would take me for the Miracle-Worker , ’ Gabriel persisted , and he grinned and rubbed his short head of hair which had barely grown long enough for a single curl . |